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 enlarge | Director: Greg Voevodsky
Actor: Planet Earth; Beaches; Hawaii
Studio: Powerfloe Network
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 24651
Format: Dolby, Ntsc
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 60
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 683107100196
EAN: 0683107100196
ASIN: B00005S83A
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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 Highly Recommended! March 26, 2005
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I found this DVD to be outstanding. Actually, I now own two of the Virtual Vacation series (Carribean Daydreams, also). What a great mind-calming tool. After about 20 minutes of watching Carribean Beaches, I felt like I'd taken about 3 Zanaxes. What's really cool is that I find myself able to "go to" a particular beach scene later in the day, when I'm getting stressed from from outside sales job. I recommend this DVD 100%.
 Do Not Add to Cart February 17, 2005
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
I will never buy one of his DVD's again. To have the audacity to throw in a quick blurb about the website and what "day" the vacation is on, DURING the program is unacceptable. He ruined my "vacation". I still cannot believe they have this "pop-up" type of marketing taking place during the video. There are many other choices out there when it comes to relaxation and nature DVD's.
Awesome! December 17, 2004
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I wasn't sure about how much this director's cut was going to vary from the original, but it was obviously different within the first few minutes of watching. It's sharper and more colorful than the original version, and I like that I can flip the subtitles off when I don't feel like seeing them. The loop-play feature is definitely cool. I've never seen that before on a DVD. Much better than the original.
No Homeland Security Hassle Getting There December 5, 2004
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am watching this DVD even as I write. I love it, to be honest. It's so artfully done that, when seated near my TV monitor, I'm tempted to extend my foot and wiggle my toes in the lustrous, lapping waves. I knew I'd hit paydirt when I happened on Greg's work while cruising relaxation disks right here at Amazon. Until then, I'd doubted ever finding such elegant simplicity, only the real deal, sights and sounds of pristine beauty ... period. Being frazzled since birth, I was familiar with the standard relaxation fare. I enjoyed it, to some degree at least, but it got so that the 'elevator music' in the background was spoiling the experience. Whether it was Mantovani or Bach, it wasn't enhancing. It was annoying, distracting. And it was everywhere. But then I encountered what for me amounted to perfection: nothing but real Hawaiian vistas, in this case, with the endless waves as background sound. Once in a while a gull might glide through the frame and utter its haunting cry (which DID enhance the experience), but nary a violin for the entire, uninterrupted 'virtual vacation' to this planets most shining visual jewels. I think it might even be an improvement on going there ... because it is so easy and trouble-free. No airport body searches. No fear of flying.
Greg Voevodsky does all the work from Molokai to Kauai, Lanai to Maui, with Oahu and Hawaii filling the bill.
I keep mine close to my DVD player or IN IT most of the time. I just hope DVD's last as long as they say they do!
A window view if you can't afford to live there! August 26, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
We have all of these DVD's from the whole series and we love them. We have LCD panels in each room of our home connected to a centralized DVD-changer, and we basically just loop through all of the discs day-in and day-out. We literally have them on from wake-up to bedtime, every day.
The newer DVD's have less of the graphics some find intrusive, and there's supposed to be a "director's Cut" version of the earlier ones coming out in the Fall with no graphics at all.
Still, the fact that the DVD's have no narrative, corny music, or overlaid text (brief intermission text aside) - plus the fact that they loop - are what makes them unique. I've found nothing at all like them, and there are definitely worth getting - especially if you have a plasma or LCD panel where you can just keep it running all day. It's truly like a window view from the beach house most of us (me included!) will never afford.
(Yeah, and for those who DO have beach houses, or live on Maui, well, yeah I suppose you have a right to be critical when comparing these to the "real" thing, but c'mon! Think of all the folks in Kansas :O) The rest of us NEED these DVD's!)
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