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Egypt: Voyage to the Land of the Pharaohs (DVD ROM) | 
| From: Montparnasse Multimedia
Category: Software
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 5672
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Unix, Linux, Macintosh, Windows Nt, Windows Me
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
Model: MPM7010
UPC: 687409097000
EAN: 0687409097000
ASIN: B00004NHNJ
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Thoth, Akhenaton, Champollion and the Rosetta stone--gods, humans (ancient and modern) and artefacts that all await discovery on the packed DVD-ROM Egypt, Voyage to the Land of the Pharaohs. There are several options for exploring the material and best for gaining an overview are two narrated introductory films, "History" (the bias is towards the ancient with only a few minutes covering the last century) and "Civilisation". Divided into short sections, you can watch these sequentially or pick sections at random. The Film option is similar with four sequences of film, again split into sections: the quality is good and the script is interesting, though even with an up-to-date PC the film ran a little jerkily on occasions. Thumbnails of associated topics appear as the film runs; these can be followed to further images and text. There are also aerial maps of parts of Egypt and although you can zoom in to a degree, you can't see really detailed views from the air. The geographical map has relatively little detail and doesn't show the country's borders. Navigation could be easier: the position of the main menu bar at the bottom of the screen means that it's all too easy to pop up the Windows Start menu. If you're just following your nose through the contents, using the index, thumbnails and hypertext links, performance can feel slow. The Travel Log is a great idea, however: it constructs an itinerary from places you choose as you browse. All manner of fascinating detail unfolds as you peruse this comprehensive Egyptian compendium. --Mark Whitehorn
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| Customer Reviews:
 Amazing Value August 5, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was very pleased with this product. 3 hours of video which was more impressively produced than some stand alone video I have bought. I didn't have any difficulty with the navigation and was able to run it on my lap-top. In addition to the video a whole range of photos and narrative searchable by theme, place or personage, audio and written commentaries. I had feared this might be a superficial look at the subject aimed at younger people but it provided a great deal of information that you'd otherwise have to plough through several books for. I plan a visit to Egypt later this year and this has got me well keyed up for it. Amazing value!
 Impressive amount of information June 18, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There's a lot packed into this DVD (not to be confused with the similarly priced, but much smaller, CD version), in terms of text, pictures and video material.Only two things let it down: first, quite a lot of the videos are jerky, even on a highish spec machine. (I don't know if this is because they are poor raw material or because the mixture of Flash and MPEG playback is just too much for my PC.) Second, the navigation system is quite obscure - the main window is surrounded with "hot areas" and when you move the pointer into one of these, a clickable link or a label appears. Once you follow one of these paths, the only way back to where you started is to laboriously hit the "back" link. There is no history mechanism, though there is a "travel log" but you plan this as you go rather than it being build up automatically. Despite these, the DVD is very good - more lively, and cheaper, than a bunch of big fat books.
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