BBC Announces New Blu-ray High Definition Natural History Collection Set

Posted May 14, 2008 04:53 PM by J.C. Ribera


Distributed by Warner, 'The BBC High Definition Natural History Collection' comes as an 8-disc Blu-ray set collecting all episodes of the TV series Planet Earth, Galápagos, Ganges, and Wild China in one convenient place. The attractive box set will be available on store shelves on July 22nd and carries an MSRP of $179.98. While 'Planet Earth' and 'Galápagos' already can be purchased separately, and 'Ganges' will be released individually this summer on July 1st, the 'Wild China' Blu-ray release won't be available until August 5th, two weeks after the box set's release.
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News comments (22 comments)

jkwest

May 14, 2008

Wow!!!!!!

Holy crap!!! Anyone want to buy a Planet Earth boxset?

Awesome, I don't own any of those yet and have been wanting to get them. Definitely picking this set up. Also, it would be cool to see all the audio get updated to TrueHD, but guessing it won't happen on the movies already released.

King03

May 14, 2008

Darn, I really wanted all of these, but already shelled out $60 for Planet Earth a long time ago. Arghh. I guess I'll buy them separately.

ranma

May 14, 2008

Hopefully they will put HD behind the scene of Planet Earth into the boxset.

frenchglen

May 14, 2008

One word (many meanings): woah.

Blu-ray Fanatic

May 14, 2008

How many of these boxsets are they going to make???? They're boring anyways and I will never intend to buy any of the nature shows. Like I'm really going to sit down, drink a beer or twelve, and watch these boring shows. In your dreams, Pedro, in your dreams.

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Leopold BUTTERS

May 14, 2008

I can't wait to get wild china!! 300 minutes long

way better than Ganges

not worth 78 minutes.

PVJAG

May 14, 2008

Looks like I may have to get rid of my Planet Earth set..

TheTenth

May 14, 2008

WOW, they read my mind! I wanted to offer Planet earth to my mother, now I'll buy this boxset!

User 13

May 14, 2008

Earth: The Biography not going to be included in the set? That would make it the ultimate box set.

gsbhatia

May 14, 2008

cmon bbc dont screw us with box sets and reissues like fox does! release these discs seperately. i already have galapgos and planet earth.

DeathByAsh'aman

May 14, 2008

they are releasing them separately, it says so right in the article.

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Lucy Diamond

May 15, 2008

This will be completely sick...off the wall...double tailwhip air.

The BBC could shoot two donkeys mating in a mud field in the middle of November and it would look awesome.

david2189

May 15, 2008

was really interested until i saw the price, that will be like £350 in the UK :x

RobFord

May 15, 2008

david2189

I know what you mean, you would think that being a British corporation they would not want to rip off their own market.

Theoretically the price here should be somewhere around £85. roughly using the recent exchange rates.

Memnoch

May 15, 2008

It will be interesting to see if they fix any of the BD glitches that where on the first Planet Earth BD or provide better picture (not that I know how that would be possible) or better audio (as mentioned above). I know that is unlikely, but that is really the only reason I didn't purchase the first set. And who is the narrator on this new set? Since it is BBC, is it the guy or Weaver?