As the Fire Chief and the Mayor try to put the city s disaster recovery plans into action, both men have to deal with the fact that their loved ones may be trapped or killed under collapsed buildings. Lisa Nicole Carson is the Mayor s daughter, who ends up trapped in a collapsed subway tunnel and Cicely Tyson portrays the Mayor s mother, who discovers that a church basement provides no sanctuary when the earthquake strikes. The image on the DVD is sharper, cleaner and better defined than the miniseries appeared on television.
Colors are very vivid and are reproduced without a trace of color noise or bleeding.
The blacks are very accurate and the DVD offers a somewhat higher level of shadow detail than one usually gets with television productions. Of course, don t expect theatrical quality sound from the mix. The soundtrack is beyond the usual television fare, offering some nice channel separation in the forward soundstage during the special effects laden moments. Also, I could swear I head some subdued split channel activity coming from the rears. Dialogue production is always clean and intelligible.