I rented this from Netflix and just finished watching (mostly scanning) through it, and wanted to see if anyone else has seen it and what they thought.

It was filmed in 1.78:1 aspect ratio and uses MPEG-2. The bitrate seemed to stay between the upper 20's to the lower 30's through most of the 55 minute feature.
As far as audio, there are about 8 different audio tracks that you can listen to, while you are watching it. These tracks are in Dolby Digital 640kbs.


As far as the content, it starts of with the liftoff of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, watching it head up to space. Once in space, it is pretty much filming the Earth while it's in orbit.

Unfortunately while it was a little interesting at first, it got pretty boring, and I started skimming through most of it.

I guess this would be a recommended title for playing at a party, just to have some scenery on the television

I wish the sound would have been even higher quality.

Here is the review they posted on High Def Digest (http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/viewfromspace.html)

That documentary/ film only had about 15 minutes of video that was looped after the launch. Considering the use of static chapters that drove me nuts as I wished to listen to certain pieces of music and could not access the specific piece due to the chapters being 'stuck" at specific time points. This meant that if you wanted to listen to "Blue Danube" when you went to its chapter you would still be in the previous music's piece and had to fastforward to reach Blue. I also wished that the music quality would have been better. i believe that they used consumer hd cameras for the video and as such we were not getting full 1920x1080 but 1440x1080. Add the fact that they shot through small portwindows made to withstand reentry and I believe that the video was outstanding considering all the parameters. I believe that the reviewers at your link have wrong expectations given that consumer cameras were used for most of the space shots. They see the difference between the launch and the rest of the film and I say that is the way it is supposed to be as the cameras at the launchpad are of the higher quality. Nasa will use and reuse those cameras for every launch and they can recoup their costs. The handhelds were problably loaned from the production company? The lack of any extras or commentary hurts this as one would like specific information as to what we were seeing and how they came to aquire the image. That is why I love the bluray "Chronos". This disc explains what we are seeing and it also tells how the scenes were shot and gives background that adds to the experience. I applaud the makers of "Chronos" for producing the perfect package.:) BTW i saw both of these on a 1080p24 92" Optoma pj via ps3 hdmi.