Customer Reviews:
  A very good release of Ocean Oasis August 29, 2008
I work in the AV Services department of the San Diego Natural History Museum, and this is our destination film. I have seen this movie on 8/70, DVD, and now Blu-ray well over 50 times from beginning to end.
As this movie was created for our museum, its a wheee bit hard to give an objective description. However, if you like nature documentaries, especially of the sea, you will probably enjoy this a great deal. Even more so if you live in or enjoy California or Mexico.
If you own the DVD: Get the Blu-ray. The DVD version is.... not so hot (at least the ones I've seen). The Blu-ray looks fantastic. Not as good as a 8/70mm film print (which is significantly more detail than a 35mm you would see at most theaters), but for the home market, pretty darn close.
As a note to the previous reviewer: yes, for some odd annoying reason, the subtitles in English are enabled by default. They can be disabled (just not in the setup menu of the movie). You will need to be playing the movie and toggle through the subtitle options (English, Dutch, German, Mandarin, Swedish, and None).
Now if they would just release the main theme as a song for Guitar Hero.....
Good video quality August 28, 2008
I have this in SD DVD but when I saw it was coming out in blu-ray I wanted it. Unfortunately I did not find anything anywhere about this version that said there are forced subtitles. There isn't any way to turn off the subtitles even when English is picked for the main audio. This is supposed to be a U.S. release. The subtitles are very distracting and take away from the video. I don't think I would have bought it had I known this.
Addendum:As the other reviewer noted, I did find out after sending an email to the distributor and the people who authored the disc the remote is the way to turn off the subtitles. I have many blu-ray discs and this is the first that won't allow turning off subtitles in the setup menu on the disc. I have the Panasonic BD30 and if you push the display button when the disc is playing you will see a subtitle area where you can turn subtitles off. The people who authored the disc said they didn't feel it was necessary to put the option in the setup menu on the disc since you can do it from the remote button. I now give the disc 5 stars.
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