Holiday Gift - Give the OCEAN

Holidays are for sharing and dinner is a favorite.

What do you bring for the dinner host?
Here’s an UNDER $20 gift for friends and family.
Wine is out! Ambiance is IN! Order today!

Our 2009 DVD is perfect for Holiday Entertaining and we have a holiday discount offer for you in our store. Natural ambiance compliments any decor. HD2O underwater video content is unique. We observe life on the reef and score an original soundtrack. The result is a ballet of spectacular colors and textures. Turn that big-screen into a looking-glass to casually gaze upon these coral ecosystems. All content is captured with no moving parts and no tape making us GREEN. GREEN for you too as Ocean water filters sunlight naturally. The resulting colors require less electricity on playback. How cool is that? NEWS FLASH: In a troubled economy friends tend to entertain at home rather than dine out. But how do you keep your company engaged in the conversation? Consider this totally underwater content. HD2O - The Keys was shot in HD and is available on DVD or you can download the HD content for the ultimate viewing. Perfect for entertaining or just relaxing at home. The 67-minute, six track program is a submersible flight through the coral reefs of the Florida Keys. And it loops! All night if necessary with a soundtrack scored to the motion of the ocean. Very sexy, if you get my drift, this is a No Brainer. visit our store $5 discount code:   US399.792FL You have friends on your list who, even if they have never been diving, they can enjoy the beauty of Nature from below the waves. Need enough for the entire department at work??? Give your team a timeless treasure; the coral reef. For a reasonable fee we can customize the disc and package to include a personal video message and insert pages. But we ask you to order now and be totally awesome for Christmas. Take a peek at our stuff. Click for our HD PodCast, or jump with both feet into this floating-log FLOG for articles and lots of embedded videos. Share this stuff with kids; Nature is what is hip. See you on the beach, Paul

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Ocean ambiance, relaxed presentation,
our 2009 DVD get HD2O online.

Rapidly changing technology can make last year’s great idea into a slumdog, and that is certianly the case with HDV. The 2009 show seemed to be a sort of catch up year, in that innovations of recent years are now very usable and ready to work.  RED for example: a few years ago the camera was a prototype. This year the accessories were out in big numbers.  3D is big. More on that in years to come.  It’s cool, but the technology has to develop to attract an audience.

NAB camera report

My favorite camera is from Silicon Imaging. Slumdog Millionaire Shot with the SI-2K Cinema Camera. The SI-2K series combine a DCI-spec 2K sensor with CineForm’s revolutionary Visually Perfect® CineForm RAW™ codec. All that- embedded Intel Core 2 Duo powered architecture. It delivers a direct-to-disk recording platform with unprecedented image quality, 11-F stops of dynamic range, an intuitive 7” LCD touchscreen interface that is off the charts, sharp OLED electronic viewfinder option, IT-friendly connectivity, battery powered operation, and up to 4-hours of continuous shooting on its hot-swap 160GB notebook hard drive. My friend Steve Waterford of ZennaTek has already invented an ingenious waterproof housing that has interior climate control and lens clearing airflow for housing lens.  This partial submersion bag is for taking it to the extreme.

Please note: There is no up-side benefit to my company if you shoot a specific camera.  In fact; I’d like to see all ocean videographers using HDV please. This is my NAB 2009 review of cameras I personally would deploy underwater.

Product Update - May 10, 2008

HD2O™ is happy to announce their DVD “The Keys” is now listed on Amazon. com. Buy it there for the same price as here, except you won’t get all the love. Thanks again to everyone involved with the project one more time for the teamwork and dedication. Congratulations! Time to start this year’s title.

Click the DVD box art above for product info and video preview!