Band Of Brothers

I have recently been watching the excellent HBO miniseries Band Of Brothers again, this time from the Blu-ray set. Suffice to say the image quality is excellent and really shines during the combat sequences as you can see every grain of grit and debris, every deadly bullet strike.

But the real gems in the set are the two in-picture features. One sees the men of Easy company speaking about the events on screen as they remember them from the time whilst the other is an information track which pops up with everything from personnel backgrounds to tactical maps to military term definitions to German translations as the episode plays. Also from time to time it will play actual archive footage alongside the recreation of the series.

Fascinating stuff and it really brings home at lot of the events as it keeps track of the company's ever growing casualty list.

The set can be picked up for about £20 at present and I really recommend it if you have HD and blu-ray capability.