The Universe Complete Series 1-5 Blu-ray boxset - £34.95 @ Zavvi

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  581d9 months, 2 weeks ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  Bargain price, but with season 6 out, I like the collection all in one box. I'll wait till the stop making the seasons then buy the last big ultimate set.
  
  This is a steal if you are not fussed about what I said.
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  parkerluke19879 months, 2 weeks ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  Absolute Bargain, if you can get it out of them! Still waiting on about 4 orders from them some over a month old! Including the NASA one which I was really looking forward to seeing! Good find.
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  weltysparrow9 months, 2 weeks ago1 Like #3Show comment toolsReply

  parkerluke1987

  Absolute Bargain, if you can get it out of them! Still waiting on about 4 orders from them some over a month old! Including the NASA one which I was really looking forward to seeing! Good find.

  
  
  I had this with the War of the Worlds (Jeff Wayne's) DVD. Though it did come in the end at the price I ordered it at - too late for Christmas though!
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  i9000gt9 months, 2 weeks ago1 Like #4Show comment toolsReply

  Nice but I think I'll download it!
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  parkerluke19879 months, 2 weeks ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  i9000gt

  Nice but I think I'll download it!

  
  
  Nice one Nigel.
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  neroneuk9 months, 2 weeks ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  how many discs???
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  davidmaiden181839 months, 2 weeks ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  Hot, think I bought this for £60-70 a year ago
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  Singlung20999 months, 2 weeks ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  It's up to season 7 now
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  MBeeching9 months, 2 weeks ago1 Like #9Show comment toolsReply

  581d

  Bargain price, but with season 6 out, I like the collection all in one box. I'll wait till the stop making the seasons then buy the last big ultimate set.
  
  This is a steal if you are not fussed about what I said.

  
  
  Season 7 finished ages ago :D
  I remember when they declared Season 5 would be the last.
  Bought the 1-4 set for £22.98 last June as the wait for a 'complete' edition is a pointless exercise.
  
  The programme has also gone seriously downhill, there are too many top ten / doomsday episodes.
  How the Universe Works: Season 2 was much better than any recent episodes.
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  cliffio769 months, 2 weeks ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  Have been keeping an eye on these series as i've never watched them on history channel (because i don't have it). ended up getting the Earth/Universe combo pack, seems like it's the "best of" episode, which'll do fine.
  
  However....How many times people planning on watching these? as they're available right now on Netflix (USA library) and in HD too.
  
  heat given anyway,
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  SC849 months, 2 weeks ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  Any 10% off codes? :-)
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  No1_Dave9 months, 2 weeks ago #12Show comment toolsReply

  love Discovery/NatGeo/History channels, I'd say 70% of my TV viewing time is for those 3 HD channels, but not sure if I'm the only one, even though these are mostly "US produced" tv programs, I really don't like their heavy american accented narration (sometimes not just different accent, but the actual script they used is different too), much much prefer UK narrators, I'm ok with US accent for music, movies etc, but for me anyway is not good for narration for serious tv programs like these, unfortunately all these Bluray releases for these programs (this The Universe one, also the Nasa one and many others) are all with US narrators, so now I'm pretty much force to cap all the HD programs by myself to get UK narration, and obviously the capping quality will never be as good as BDs, and also takes up lots of HDD space.
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  MBeeching9 months, 2 weeks ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  Who does the UK narration for Morgan Freeman's 'Through the Wormhole'? :p
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  cliffio769 months, 2 weeks ago #14Show comment toolsReply

  Who does the UK narration for Morgan Freeman's 'Through the Wormhole'?

  
  
  i think it's MoreThan Freeman.
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  No1_Dave9 months, 1 week ago #15Show comment toolsReply

  MBeeching

  Who does the UK narration for Morgan Freeman's 'Through the Wormhole'? :p

  
  
  well his voice is quite distinctive(even when watching movies) so it's borderline acceptable as a narrator, but as I said before I find most US accents to be quite (lack of a better word)"exaggerated", so it's good for performing arts like movies, music etc which requires "exaggeration", but not very suitable for narration for serious tv programs.
  
  personally really like Richard Lintern's voice, very calm and clear (he narrated How the universe works, NASA's greatest missions, Discovery Atlas etc). Also some UK accents are good for adding humour/fun into narration, love Mythbusters so very much prefer Robin Banks (ironically an irish guy speaking with a very English accent) than Robert Lee, very heavy & cumbersome US accent.
  
  other UK narration voices that I really like (mostly heard them from tv programs on Discovery/NatGeo/History) Jonathan Booth, Sean Pertwee,Trevor Nichols.
  
  

  
  Edited By: No1_Dave on Sep 04, 2012 02:24: add

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