Despite his top-notch flying abilities, his carefree and sometimes insolent personality makes him a tough sell to his immediate superiors. But when it comes time to send the best of the best off to the Navy s most prestigious fighter school for training, Maverick and his flight partner are at the front of the line. Fantastic aerial photography during dogfights make this a visually exciting film. The video transfer is yards better than any previous version. Colors are very vibrant at times too vibrant but make for spectacular outdoors scenery.
Black levels are well calibrated and noise is almost non-existent.
Detail levels are good, but overall if the color saturation had been turned down a notch it would have resulted in more realistic skin tones. Both transfers combined, the disc holds 8 gigabytes of data. Paramount created a brand new 5.1 soundtrack mix for this release of Top Gun, but it s not as impressive as one would expect. Some viewers have commented that they though the rear channels were completely missing, however that isn t the case. ProLogic track, the split surround channels on the 5.1 mix are used very sparingly at only key places.