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Extreme Blu-ray
IMAXNational Geographic | 1999 | 45 mins | Not rated | Nov 18, 2008
Extreme(1999)Documentary | Short     An in-your-face look at extreme sports and the daredevil athletes that risk their lives for the thrill of adventure. The cameras were rolling when Ross Clarke-Jones surfed through El Niño tidal waves, when a ferocious twenty day snow storm lured four snowboarders to rocket down Alaska's steppest mountainsides, and when rock climbing expert Lynn Hill scaled the notoriously difficult rock formations of Utah to display in a big way the larger-than-life feats of athletes willing to risk death in order to celebrate the passion of living. For more details about Extreme on Blu-ray, see the Extreme Blu-ray Review Extreme Blu-ray, Video Quality  Extreme arrives from its IMAX version with a 1.78:1 AVC encoded image that is remarkably sharp and artifact free. You can actually see individual snowflakes and water droplets in the various segments, bringing an often breathtaking level of detail to the excellent photography. Colors are beautifully saturated, sometimes amazingly so, as in the ocean sequences, where the gorgeous aquamarine and teal of various waters will delight most viewers. The only drawback, as noted above, is the fact that this was originally projected on a screen of immense proportions, meaning that some of the wide shots (and there are many, as might be expected) simply swallow up the human element whole. Extreme Blu-ray, Audio Quality  Two decent enough soundtracks are offered, a DD 5.1 at 48 kHz streaming at 640 Kbps, and a DD 2.0, also at 48 kHz, streaming at 192 Kbps. While certainly not up to lossless Blu-ray standards for your basic summer blockbuster, these certainly suffice well enough for these proceedings. A generally amiable score by Soulfood (along with occasional source cues by such groups as The Cure) is well mixed into the proceedings. Everything here is clear, though surround channels are largely forgotten except for occasionally ambient moments like water sounds and the like. There’s nothing here that is going to knock your high def socks off, but there’s certainly nothing to complain about per se--these are two completely acceptable DD soundtracks for what is, after all, a documentary built mostly around visuals. Extreme Blu-ray, News and Updates• National Geographic's Extreme Coming to Blu-ray - August 14, 2008 National Geographic in conjunction with Warner Home Video have announced that they will bring the IMAX feature 'Extreme' to Blu-ray on November 4th, day-and-date with the DVD release. No technical specs have been announced at this time except that the 45-minute ... Extreme Blu-ray, Forum Discussions
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