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The Universe DVD
An Amazing Journey from the Sun to the Most Distant Galaxies
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Features
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Stunning close-up movies of
the Sun
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Remote stars,
nebulae & galaxies
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Images
from Hubble's new ACS camera
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Live interview with Alex
Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
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Live interview with Karel
Schrijver, Astronomer, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology
Center
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Widescreen anamorphic video
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Dolby 5.1 surround sound
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Informative and educational
narration
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Dramatic original music
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A Brilliant
Video Tour of the Universe
Description: The Universe
DVD is a brilliant video tour of over 200 amazing astronomical
objects, featuring images from Hubble, SOHO, TRACE, and NASA's
other orbiting space telescopes. The Universe DVD sweeps you
past distant galaxies and through magnificent nebulae, zooms
up close to the inferno of the sun, and flies deep within
dense clusters of dazzling stars. Includes incredible new
close-up movies of the sun.
Each of the eleven chapters
showcases a different type of object, featuring a concise
narration explaining every image. An original orchestral score
beautifully complements the mystery and magnificence of these
amazing cosmic phenomena.
Written and produced by Tim
Tully, Universe Productions. Original music written and
performed by Paul. D. Lehrman.
"Wow!
What a nice show....Bottom line: a great DVD!"
Bill Arnett. |
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COMBO-PAK: Buy Universe DVD and Our Fantastic
Universe HST CD-ROM together
and take a thrilling tour of the universe on your own computer
monitor.
Minimum system requirements: DVD-Video
player or DVD-ROM equipped, Pentium II computer. Microsoft
Windows 95/98/NT/2000. 25 MB free hard drive space. MPEG-2
decoder with Dolby Digital Surround Sound. DVD-Equipped
Macintosh will play title only using Apple DVD-Video player.
Copyright 2003. |
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February 20, 2003
The Universe on DVD
By Jim Bray
If you're a space nut, or
just want to bask in the glory of the Universe around us, have I got the DVD for
you.
It's called, not
surprisingly, "The
Universe"
and it takes viewers on a journey that begins at the center of our solar system
and ends as far out in the vast cosmic regions as technology allowed when the
DVD was put together.
And, as always should be
when a DVD is being put together, the images are presented in anamorphic
widescreen and fill the 16x9 television's screen completely, offering you a
panoramic view of the wonders of nature (or God) that the disc displays.
The footage is nothing short
of amazing, and they kick things off right (after a short introduction to the
telescopes themselves) with a fascinating look—including time lapse footage—of
our Sun. This spectacular section, courtesy of NASA's SOHO and TRACE telescopes,
lets you clearly see the source of life on Earth at work fusing its gases and
emitting energy and radiation whether it be in the form of solar wind, gigantic
prominences, or just big globs or trails of star stuff (to steal a phrase the
late Carl Sagan used to great effect in his groundbreaking series "Cosmos")
leaping from the star's surface and following its magnetic field until it's
swallowed up again by our system's primary.
It really is spectacular and
to me this section alone is worth the price of admission because, while I'd seen
plenty of sun shots before, nothing had come close to the detailed (and
frighteningly beautiful) shots displayed here.
Electronic Musician,
June 1, 2002
The Universe for a Song
By Tim Tully
 I've been producing a
commercial DVD titled The Universe,
and one of the most challenging aspects of the project has been building the 5.1
surround soundtrack.
The primary content of
The Universe
is a huge number of animated stills and movies showing the amazing astronomical
images being sent to Earth by various space-based telescopes. The well-known
Hubble Space Telescope captures images of cosmic objects ranging from within our
own solar system out to unbelievably distant extragalactic regions. The less
famous TRACE and SOHO telescopes shoot incredible close-up videos of the surface
and corona of the Sun.
From the initial
stages, I planned to create the entire project in my home project studio. The
tools were readily available, and I believed I could push the project through—at
least to the replication stage—with only moderate additions to my audio-video
setup. I knew it would be a challenge but that it would ultimately be worthwhile
for a number of reasons.
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