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Here's a different disc. Mars - The
Red Planet is more of an infotainment disc rather than a documentary
disc. Firstly it has two modes, an interactive mode and an
entertainment mode. If you watch the disc in entertainment mode the
show starts off with yet again another liftoff of a rocket carrying
the mars lunar probe into space, this is interesting to watch, it's
just a shame that it is not in the same thunderous 5.1 sound that
the previous Earthlight DVD had.
Once the liftoff is completed the
disc immediately jumps to the planet Mars with Gustav Holst's The
Planet's score playing in 5.1 sound. This on top of other
sections includes various locales of the planet with your handy
angle button on your remote. Quite interesting and stunning to look
at.
Also on the disc is an interactive
mode in which you can jump around various parts of the planet. The
surface views are one quite interesting part of the disc. You can
actually go around parts of the planet that the little rover
explored which looks wonderful.
There is also a few 3D images to
look at with the supplied 3D glasses, I don't know maybe it's my
eyes but the 3D images didn't look that good. Also on the disc are
the gallery which includes a whole heap on artist renderings, an
interactive maps section with over 700 maps that you can zoom in
& out on and pan around. There is also a missions section which
explains most of the missions that we mere Earthlings have engaged
in over the years with some video included in these sections. There
is also the planetary views section as mentioned earlier
The other great extra on this disc
are the Easter eggs, there are reportedly over 200 eggs on the disc,
I have only found about 40 so far.
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