Prince Eric awakened to only a memory of her beautiful voice, so Arial will have a difficult time winning him over. Ursula, however, will stop at nothing to ensure that Arial fails. Try to catch the misplaced frame during the opening of the bubble curtain in chapter 3, or find the few unrefined early attempts at computer-generated backgrounds. Unlike the last VHS release and many of the other recently released animated discs from Disney, The Little Mermaid does not feature a THX-certified transfer. The print used is quite clean, but I was able to detect a fair amount of film grain.
Black levels are good, as is overall sharpness and clarity.
Colors were not as vibrant as I would have expected, but none the less very smooth and quite accurate. The dual-layered disc contains 5 gigabytes of data divided into 27 chapters. Also on the disc are English subtitles. Audio is presented in a glorious Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix. The discrete rear effects channels are used numerous times and help to create a large soundstage.