CHERNOBYL (4K UHD/BLU-RAY/DIGITAL COPY)

Great short series and highly recommend the 4k version. Only giving a 5/5 due to the quality of the series, as it took a painfully wrong time to arrive (nearly 2 months) and arrived damaged so I sent it back. Watch the movie, but perhaps beware of where from

I bought Chernobyl as a gift for a friend. They are very much interested in History and it was on their viewing wish list. They have just started watching it. They are enjoying it so far.

As an avid television watcher of many years I have seen many great television series. I have no hesitation that this programme is one of the finest that I have ever had the privilege to watch. True the subject matter is serious. As serious as Cancer and I say that phrase from the view point who has witnessed his wife dying from that terrible scurge. Many people sneer at the cover up of the Russians failing to realise that this disaster brought out the best of humanity in the bravery of the men and women who fought the disaster. Chernobyl does all that it conveys the simple bravery, courage and self sacrifice of the Russian people, the fire fighters. Nurses, soldiers and leaders alongside the pathetic attempts of the politicians to cover up the uncoverable. (sic) The series slowly and quite beautifully conveys all the bravery tragedy and stupidity of the disaster, To say this is magnificent television is an understatement. The scenes of bravery unfold slowly and surely and the viewer is left mouth open at the bravery of the people. There are far too many scenes to convey the total brilliance but tiny scenes stand out. The scene where the Minster of Coal supported by two Machine armed guards ,orders nearby miners to report to Chenobyl. They bravely tell him to tell them why and when he gives it to them straight they volunteer one by one each patting their coal covered hands on his pale blue suit with the rejoiner that now he looks like a Minister for Coal. The personal touches and humanity is conveyed by the wife of a fire fighter hugging her dying husband knowing that just a touch of him is lethal. The honesty and stoicism of the miners who have to dig a 12m deep tunnel beneath the core to install a heart exchanger. The cast is magnificent and a credit to the largely British cast led by the magnificent Jared Harris. If this was fiction you would not believe the plot. We all know the outcome of Chernobyl or at least we think we do. This terrific series does just that. I salute the producers and the production company..

Muy buena serie, la recomiendo mucho. Mi reconocimiento a todas las personas que arriesgaron su vida para solucionar el problema de esa magnitud, muchos de ellos murieron a consecuencia de las radiaciones, son verdaderos héroes. La serie viene con audio y subtítulos en español y es multiregión (A,B,C). El producto llego en buenas condiciones y antes del tiempo estimado.

The 4K disc one has a major issue atvthe end of episode one. It is just not playing. I have have two XBox and a panasonic 4K bluray player and none of them are able to play the first disc. I had asked them to replace the first delivered item, which they did. The second showed the exact same issue. That is when I thought it might be the XBox and did not take a refund. But the lastest Panasonic player I bought from the USA is also unable to play the part. So be careful and check if you are facing the same issue or not. Seller Games.Stores*****, please be aware.

Als Physiker kann ich die Serie sogar empfehlen. Es wird sehr schön umschrieben, die Zusammenhänge sind für Laien verständlich, wenn auch etwas grundlegend. Spannend, ein nettes Drama für ein Wochenende

This HBO series is well known for its accurate portrayal of the worlds worst nuclear accident, well written and well acted.

This miniseries looks quite good on 4K Blu-ray. The colors on this series are purposely muted so you are not going to see the colors "pop", that was a directorial choice, but you will be treated to a very sharp image with HDR, and since "Chernobyl" was actually shot and mastered in native 4K, you won't be watching an image up converted from 2K, but will be watching REAL 4K. This well acted and well written true story miniseries tells of the most infamous nuclear disaster in history--and tells that story unusually well. We see many different parts of the disaster from multiple points of view. We witness the events through the eyes of the nuclear operators in the control room of the reactor who followed proper procedure to stop the meltdown from happening and wound up unexpectedly triggering the explosion by doing so (completely unaware of the dangerous flaw in the reactor design that was ultimately responsible for what happened). We also witness events through the eyes of those firefighters on the ground who walked into a situation their training could never have prepared them for (and many of whom paid for that with their lives), we see it through the eyes of the investigators who were shocked to discover the directly exposed core so radioactive it was ionizing the smoke above the blasted and battered reactor building making it glow weirdly--and who then had to figure out exactly why the reactor did the seemingly impossible by exploding when all the proper safety measures were taken to prevent it. We also see events through the eyes of the scientist who discovers her government is lying about the seriousness of the accident when, in the process of her research, she finds the city she lives in is being dangerously irradiated even at such a distance from Chernobyl. And we witness it through the eyes of the nuclear investigator who eventually finds the flaw in the reactor design which caused the disaster, and then is shocked to discover that this same flaw is present in ALL Soviet built reactors--and who is later even more shocked to find that the government would rather make believe there was no flaw to save embarrassment to themselves, than to actually fix the ticking time bombs in their other reactors in order to prevent the same thing from almost surely happening again. My favorite of all was the final episode, in which the government hearing on the disaster takes place. By having the experts explain the technical details in ordinary everyday terms to the non-scientists on the government commission, the events of this tragedy are made just as clear to we the non-scientist viewers. And the explanation of what went wrong and why was utterly fascinating--the flawed emergency system to be used to stop a meltdown dead in its tracks when needed would really cause the reactor to do the opposite if it was actually used in such an emergency scenario! Although the series may have taken a while to draw me in, once it had me it never let go. I couldn't stop until I had watched it all the way to the end--and I'm so glad that I did! This series was very well done and truly eye opening! Chernobyl is an above average miniseries about a real life nuclear disaster and the 4K Blu-ray looks very good. As I mentioned earlier, Chernobyl was actually shot and mastered in native 4K, which rendered a superior image on the disc to many other offerings which are instead up converted from 2K masters. Why TV series and miniseries are usually not released on 4K Blu-ray the way movies are is a mystery to me. In the entire history of the format only Westworld, Chernobyl and Game of Thrones (and spin-off House of the Dragon) and now Halo have ever been released in 4K. I know buyers would swallow up 4K collections of shows like The Mandelorian, The Expanse, Loki, The Crown, The Umbrella Academy, The Orville (which looks great in 4K, but is criminally only released on disc in the standard definition DVD format--not even in high definition!), and so many others if they were simply made available on 4K Blu-ray. Never the less, we do have 5 shows available in the format and Chernobyl is one of them. I recommend the purchase of this truly fascinating miniseries on 4K Blu-ray. Since even HBO Max doesn't show any of its own programs (other than "Game of Thrones" or "House of the Dragon") in 4K for some inexplicable reason, this is the only way to view it in the format it was actually filmed and mastered in--and beyond that it is also an excellent miniseries that is very much worth seeing. You can truly see it at its very best on this 4K Blu-ray edition.