Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009)
IMDb Rating: 9.1 | 6 of 6 Episodes
720p BDRip | mp4 | x265 AVC @ 3032 Kbps, 25 fps | 1278 x 720 | 5h 12min | 9.13 GB
2-ch English DTS @ 1509 Kbps | Subtitle: none
Genre: Documentary, WWII, War, History
IMDb Rating: 9.1 | 6 of 6 Episodes
720p BDRip | mp4 | x265 AVC @ 3032 Kbps, 25 fps | 1278 x 720 | 5h 12min | 9.13 GB
2-ch English DTS @ 1509 Kbps | Subtitle: none
Genre: Documentary, WWII, War, History
Apocalypse: World War II blasts onto Blu-ray with an AVC encoded 1080i transfer in 1.78:1. It's obviously fairly useless to talk about "lifelike" color or natural saturation when one is dealing with an artifically colorized product like this. As with most colorized footage, everything is washed out, pale looking and often unreal in overall ambience. What makes the colorizing even harder to take is the actual color footage included (as with the home movies of Hitler at Berchtesgaden), which make the colorized segments literally pale by comparison. The good news is that a lot of this footage has been rather meticulously restored and we therefore are granted a well above average sharpness and clarity in a lot of the older sequences. As with any documentary, footage has been sourced from a huge variety of elements, and some of the smaller millimeter formats are incredibly grainy and soft, something the colorizing only makes worse. There's also noticeable edge enhancement an haloing on several shots. Again as might be expected, some of the source elements are badly damaged, to the point where even restoration can't completely ameliorate specks, dirt and other debris.