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Title: Not quite HD but an excellent series
Review: This is without a doubt a great series. But given it deals with historical color film is it really High Definition and worth having on BluRay?Well, the titles, photographs and the modern day interviews and some scene locations are definitely HD. But, the historical film certainly isn't HD or even SD and unfortunately these soft looking and often amateur clips have not been digitally restored to what they could be. This is somewhat disappointing as most are in their raw 8mm and 16mm state with scratches, dirt, hair, blotches etc etc. There was probably a look-see whether digital restoration was possible by the History Channel but was possibly thought to be too time-consuming and expensive.Nevertheless, the answer is not to show this series on a home theatre HD projection screen but on a much smaller HDTV flat screen. After a while the contents and presentation of this excellent series will make you forget about the quality of the old WWII footage.
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