There are absolutely no traces of chroma noise or color bleeding anywhere during the presentation. Blacks are accurately rendered, plus the image creates an excellent level of shadow detail for the realistically under-lit interior sequences. Most of the sound emanates from the forward soundstage, with the center channel handling the majority of sonic information. The left and right forward channels do provide some directionality for sound effects, as well as stereo imaging for the film s musical score. The surround channels provide some ambient sound and musical fill.
Dialogue is always clean, intelligible and natural sounding.
An English Dolby Surround soundtrack is also encoded onto the DVD, as are Spanish and Portuguese language tracks. Subtitles are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai. The interactive menus are attractive, but quite basic in their implementation. Through the menus one can access the standard scene selection and set up features. The DVD s supplemental material is also accessible through the menu system.