footage streteched vertically for widescreen and bad audio attempt

as said in title. so annoying. footage streteched vertically for widescreen cannot be more annoying. also a big problem in these HD war documentaries is they are either taking re sampled audio samples of the weapons and overlaying them, or attempting to remaster them in ways that any real audio technician knows will only ruin the authenticity of the original audio. everything is a factor. what the ignorant remasterer things is hiss is most likely a product of the noisy environment. other factors such as the exact placement of foliage of the jungle, directionality of gunfire or blasts (in cases where they arent or do not manage to blast evenly across the horizontal), even the capabilities of the cameras used to record audio, are all factors that are ruined by either method of remastering. you cannot just use a digital hiss remover and add other filters (which only use sophisticated equalizer settings) without removing important sound data buried beneath that fuzz.

i cannot watch this. the ww2 hd ones aren't quite as bad, although they butcher the audio much worse, at least they dont stretch the footage to make it widescreen. if what im looking at looks like an old widescreen tv on cable before cable made their feeds widescreen and stretched everything to look fat, i refuse to watch or recommend such a thing. i have many other multi dvd vietnam, ww2, ww1, and civil war docus that people can get alot more out of than this. i get the feeling a group of kids did it. especially when i hear the narrator and see the pathetic attempt at remastering. they obviously have not grown up in the age where we knew exactly how these remastering methods worked, and what their fallbacks were, and that nothing has changed. in fact the methods have gotten considerably worse now that there are more digital methods of doing it and they fall even shorter than the old hardware counterparts.