Beautifully captured, peaceful footage of the undersea world that I can watch over and over.

The Coral Sea Dreaming DVD shows a variety of marine life in clear format and upclose. The format is more like a relaxation DVD and less like a documentary. For this reason, I'm reluctant to give it a 5-star review. Why do I still give it 4 stars? The answer is simple - picture quality is amazing. Even though it is filmed in nature, the sharpness, clarity, lack of fuzziness and timing is stunning, just like your saltwater aquarium, except the marine life is upclose and captured on DVD at the right moment (feeding, releasing larvae etc). You can also treat it as a screensaver or run it in the background when you have guests over. I'd expect it to gain the attention of a 2-4 year old, although a 7 or 8 year old might find it boring as it doesn't explain what the marine life is doing (unless you happen to be a marine biologist and can explain it to your kids while it is running).

CSD is a constant series of 3 sec film clips with generally too much camera shake. The marine subjects are beautiful, but the filming and production are definitely 2nd rate. I'm glad I have an old VHS copy because I forgot how poor quality this is, and was considering buying the DVD. I only made it thru 12 mins of the video and hit the stop button. There are other much better coral reef titles out there.

I've owned this for a few years now. I absolutely love this disc. The photography is stunning, and the music not only is also good, but perfectly matches the video. It one of my favorite chilling videos. I cannot recommend this disc enough. If you like underwater photography, especially of coral reefs, BUY THIS DISC.

My son is in college in Maine for Marine Science. I saw this Cd in the eye doctors office. Every time I went it was on. It was so amazing. All the different fish and corcal. The color of the coral and how the fish hide was amazing.The fish I have never heard of most of them. I bought the Cd for my son for Christmas. He was amazed! We watched the CD so many time, and always found something new.