Plasmaquarium Aquarium (2005)

Product Details

• Actors: Plasmaquarium
• Directors: Plasma Window
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Plasma Window
• Run Time: 60 minutes
  

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Consumer Reviews

I've always loved aquariums. I utilized to have several, which includes a big tropical tank. Regrettably, I just can not keep those up any additional. That's why I lept at the chance to have a "virtual aquarium" - to turn my personal computer screen and my high def Television into a major aquarium. Whilst the concept is a certainly cool 1, this version is not pretty wonderful. It really is close, but they could do far far better.
1st, the fundamentals. You pick from 1 of quite a few "loops". These consist of five saltwater tanks, a koi tank, shark, freshwater, or tropicoral. You can decide on from new age, jazzy or natural sound audio tracks. Then you sit back and watch the fish swim around. These aren't fake fish, they are films of true, live fish.
The problem is that this DVD claims it was created specifically for sizeable, high definition TVs. Nevertheless, when you play the DVD on that size Television, the fish are Big. They do not appear natural at all. They look pretty unnatural. Also, many of the scenes are Especially zoomed in - i.e. the camera's pointing at a tiny region of coral and a few fish swim by. Instead, they could have completed a full, life sized image of a huge tank, so you could see almost everything, and had them "actual size". That would have been far, far a great deal more exciting to me. The point is to have a virtual fishtank - not to see a few fish gigantic sized.
Here's a fast description of each loop included:
Saltwater 1: one particular coral lump, a single plastic plant. Black background. Four main types of fish such as clownfish.
Saltwater two: one particular coral lump, one particular plastic plant. The sand slopes up to the left so you get even less "screen region". The background is bright blue. Yellow tangs and possibly 3 other types. This is so close up that typically there are only 1-two fish on the screen.
Saltwater 3: This is a bit far better, pulled back far more. You get three coral lumps plus a plant. There are angelfish, yellow tanks, and a few others. The background is bright blue. This is one particular of my favorites considering of the image size.
Koi: This very complete koi tank has perhaps 50 koi in it, all swarming. All several colors and shapes. On the downside, the tank is completely grey with Absolutely nothing in it at all. It looks pretty depressing. I would have loved this if there was a good river bottom, but it looks particularly sad, that they are in a giant grey holding tank.
Saltwater 4: Coral, shell, plastic plant and black background. This is completed in a "far away" view comparable to 3 so is also a relatively good one. There are five/6 fish varieties represented here. This is also one particular of the superior ones simply because of the wide variety of fish on the screen at a time and the much more appropriate sizing.
Saltwater five: Giant coral and two plants. The problem right here is that we're in close again and there are a lot of fish all jammed in together. they don't actually look pleased to be squished in like this. This 1 seems extremely stressful vs relaxing. The background is vivid blue.
Shark: On 1 hand this is 1 of the most exciting "sets" - there is a ton of coral and bubbles suitable in the center of the screen. Thre's a shark that swims about occasionally. A lot of the time though there is absolutely nothing at all on the screen. That being mentioned, if you like sharks, this is a quite cool 1. We're not talking superb white here, it really is a tiny, brown shark.
Freshwater: This most certainly suffers the super-zoomed-in issue. It's an fascinating background - river rocks, coral, a plant. But, we are so zoomed in that we don't get the relaxing flow of the fish. We get perhaps 3-four fish zipping in and out of the screen. They are primarily the same shape and size, with yellow, pink and grey bodies.
Tropicoral: The final entry is also super zoomed in. The complete screen is a coral location. There are maybe 2-three fish that can fit into that space at a time. These involve clown fish and yellow tangs. It is just also close in to certainly be enjoyable.
I am not saying I dislike the concept! I assume the videos are very clear, the fish are excellent and the notion is a wonderful one particular. I would surely order even more videos if these guys created them. My issue is that these are not a relaxing "watching an aquarium" atmosphere, which is what I wanted. They are either way too zoomed in, or they are not properly laid out. These guys want to get together with some aquarium enthusiasts and film some actual, complete length tanks. That would be best!

I ordered this even just after I saw some critiques that warned me against it considering that I couldn't discover something much better and wanted an aquarium DVD. Why didn't I listen to the evaluation that mentioned the shots were also close? They are way too close even for a standard size Television. But that's not the only difficulty with this poor DVD:
The backgrounds of the tanks are ugly and dlstracting.
The fish are not highly attractive and in the case of the koi, look distressed.
The music is terrible and the bubble sound tremendously annoying.
I was hoping this DVD would relieve stress. Rather, it designed it. I wish Amazon had a complete refund policy for opened items.
So glad I purchased Hawaiian Dreams from the Waves Virtual Vacations series. That 1 more than lives up to its billing.
I feel I can have to go out and shoot a much better aquarium series. Does not seem to be a beneficial one out there.