Blacks are accurately recreated and the image has good contrast. Digital compression artifacts are well disguised by solid authoring. PAL JOEY comes with a two-channel Dolby Digital monaural soundtrack that sounds wonderful for a film over forty years old. By today's standards, the track isn't what one would call high fidelity, but it is obvious from this DVD that the songs and the music were very well recorded. PAL JOEY will take a goodly amount of amplification and maintain a very pleasing sound.
Dialogue is always clean and intelligible, but the music has a definite edge.
A Portuguese language soundtrack is also encoded onto the DVD, as are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai subtitles. The interactive menus look nice, but are very basic in the implementation. Through the menus one can access the standard scene selection and set up features, as well as the DVD's extras. There are some vintage advertising materials, as well as a cool theatrical trailer and talent files supplementing this DVD release of PAL JOEY . All of the supplemental materials are accessible from the DVD's menus.