Fireplace DVD: Real Wood Burning Fire (Anamorphic – FullScreen Edition)
- Enjoy a real wood burning fire (not a gas log imitation)!
- Recorded to provide the highest spectrum of flame color.
- Dolby Digital Sound of the actual wood burning fire snapping and crackling!
- Fill the entire screen of widescreens and standard sized screens! (no annoying letterbox “black bars”)
- Easy to loop any of the three phases (beginning, middle, end) or play all three in sequence.
After being disappointed with many of the Fireplace DVDs out on the market that we tested, we were inspired to create a fireplace DVD that:
1. Used a real wood burning fire (not gas).
2. Was lit properly so that the fire didn’t overexpose the shot.
3. A fire that filled the entire screen of a wide screen television as well as a regularly formatted TV.
4. Had no cheesy hearths to distract from the fire’s magnificence.
5. Allowed the viewer
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Fireplaces, Fishtank & Lava
What are Virtual Fireplaces, Fish Tanks and Lava Lamp DVDs?
They are known as ambient visuals. They transform your TV with three full screen soothing visuals! Warm yourself with our selection of comforting Fireplaces, Classic, Modern or a Camp fire for telling stories with the kids. You can give any room an aquatic vibe, while enjoying a relaxing Fish tank. Finally, you can chill out to a full screen Lava Lamp in perpetual motion, made with real lava from the Lava Bubbles DVD! How do the
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Review by T. Lockhart for Fireplace DVD: Real Wood Burning Fire (Anamorphic – FullScreen Edition)
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I really wish I could agree with the other reviews who gave this a high rating. I really tried hard to like it but just can’t. I have a more than a few different fireplace DVD’s and the write up on this seemed very promising. I bought this for a 42 inch Plasma. My first problem was that the color tones are WAY too red/orange. I tried every adjustment on my TV and it was either red or washed out. I could not get it to look natural at all. My second issue was that there is a constant odd eliptical illumination in the background. It looks as though there is a spotlight on it all time, not the natural glow that would be naturally given from a fire. Also, the logs and fire were sort of hazy and did not look nearly as crisp and realistic as some other videos. I actually play this on a TV that’s nestled in a real hearth and behind a stained glass firescreen (safer than a real fire when you have little tots!) and it was so bad that I couldn’t even play it partially hidden behind the glass. The only good part of this DVD was the audio of the fire and the ability to play the fire at different levels or the whole cycle of the fire. My suggestion overall though is to pass this by if you want something realistic!
Review by J. Lexell for Fireplace DVD: Real Wood Burning Fire (Anamorphic – FullScreen Edition)
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I was very impressed with this video. I actually ordered 2 others and was not satisfied. I liked this Fireplace DVD best because 1. it was a real fire and 2. it fills the screen. I really didn’t like the cheesy foregrounds of another DVD I bought. Whenever we have people over to the house and want some background, but not a distraction we put this on and people always love it.
Review by M. C. Anderson for Fireplace DVD: Real Wood Burning Fire (Anamorphic – FullScreen Edition)
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burns fast. 20-30 minutes from start to finish..looping is disjointed not as thrilling as the other reviewers. I own a fire and this is for ski trips…i would have done 2-3 complete fires with looping options for each fire. Adequate but not as exceptional as the other reviewers.
Review by M. Moschel for Fireplace DVD: Real Wood Burning Fire (Anamorphic – FullScreen Edition)
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This dvd only offers 1 fire, which is kind of nice because you can tell the producers went for quality over quantity. The fire really gives off a nice natural warm glow. I really like that you can see the whole fire from when it starts to where it burns down to glowing embers.
I love putting the dvd on and curling up with a book on a rainy day. Ahhh so relaxing!
Review by TazLover for Fireplace DVD: Real Wood Burning Fire (Anamorphic – FullScreen Edition)
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I returned this product because the audio was horrible. When the volumne was on, it had an irritating humming sound, which made it almost impossible to hear the crackling fire.
Review by Paul Dang for Fireplaces, Fishtank & Lava
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Review by JK for Fireplaces, Fishtank & Lava
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This is a DVD containing 5 short videos, each about 30 minutes long. They are closeups of a two fireplaces (classic and modern), a campfire, a saltwater aquarium, and a lava lamp. The fire and fishtank videos are excellent, in sharp focus and with good, realistic sound quality. There are many active fish in the aquarium, plus some coral and a shrimp. While the DVD is standard def (480i), everything looks pretty good on an HDTV with a quality upconverter in the TV or DVD player. If you want a DVD with fireplaces and an aquarium, this is a good choice.
In comparison to the “Fun View TV v. 1″, the fireplaces are similar, and perhaps a little better on this disc. “Fun View” only has one fireplace, equivalent to the “classic” on this disc, and the video of it is only 2 1/2 minutes long. “Fun View” has a single goldfish against a white background instead of an aquarium, and has goofy sound effects instead of the aquarium’s realistic pump and filter noises. Both discs have a lava lamp. (I’d have preferred a freshwater aquarium.) This disc is a clear winner over “Fun View” in the “fireplaces and fish” department.
However, “Fun View” does have a lot more variety of TV “screensavers”. Most of them are literally computer-style screensavers (zooming starfield, snowscape, etc.), and are literally computer-generated. Many are a static image with a computer-generated foreground (for example, the snowscape is a picture of some snow-covered trees, with computer-generated snowflakes falling in front of the picture). They’re well-done, but do look a little fake. There are a couple of oddballs, such as the video of the running microwave. Plus there are seasonal ones, such as a jack-o-lantern with lightning in the background. They might be useful to play as a sort of animated decoration for a party. For variety at the expense of quality, “Fun View” is a reasonable choice.
Since neither is terribly expensive, a third option is to simply get both.
Review by Allison Faith for Fireplaces, Fishtank & Lava
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This really is head and shoulders above any other Fireplace DVD out there and for the price unbeatable. It even has an aquarium and a great lava lamp that is full screen, not animated and not a filmed round lava lamp, I wonder how they did that? I can’t believe that Target, Walmart, costco and all the mass merchants are not selling a million of these. I was looking for one of these in stores before I came to amazon to get it, in the future I am going to save the gas and just come back.
Especially to get a bunch of these as Christmas gifts!
Review by L. Adams for Fireplaces, Fishtank & Lava
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This is the second fireplace DVD we’ve purchased. The first was a disappointing thing with horrid music that you couldn’t turn off, of which there was no mention on the label. We wanted to have a “crackling” fire, and that’s what we got with this Vjworld DVD. We played it during our family Christmas parties, as we do not have a fireplace in our great room. People said they felt warmer when it was on – I thought it was only in my head, so this was confirmation for me that I wasn’t going crazy. The fire is mesmerizing, as well as gorgeous and calming. I noticed people just staring into it as the festivities were going on, and several of them asked where we bought it. The aquarium is also beautiful and calming; I’m sure we’ll get more use out of it in the warmer months. We watched for quite a while, trying to see where the loop started over, and never did see a repeat.
We enjoy the fire in the evenings while we read – so cozy – all it lacks is the wonderful smell of a wood fire (got a wood-wick candle for this). I wasn’t sure that we’d ever use the lava lamp – we are a little past our “groovy” stage, but our baby granddaughter just loved it! Highly recommended.
Review by FACS instructor for Fireplaces, Fishtank & Lava
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This DVD offers a choice of three different fireplace scenes from which to choose. The fire is very life-like and the sound effects of the fire crackling and popping make it very realistic. The campfire even has the sound of the crickets and tree frogs in the backgound. The fish tank also has the sound of the water pump in the background. The fire burns with a great picture of the flames and logs. If you are looking for a fire place DVD this one offers a varity of choices and great sound effects to go with each one.