Far too much of the film's Panavision dimensions are cropped away on the full screen version to make it worth anyone's time. The transfer itself is very nice looking, providing a sharp and detailed image that looks every bit as good as a 1963 film can look. Colors are reproduced with very good saturation, appealing flesh tones and no evidence of chroma noise. Solid DVD authoring hides all traces of compression artifacts. The music gets a good spread in this mix, although the surround channels are fairly limited whenever the music goes silent.
Dialogue is clean sounding and the lyrics to the songs are always intelligible.
Of course, the sound is somewhat limited by the fidelity of the original 1963 recordings. Other soundtrack options include the film's original 3-channel soundtrack mix and a 2.0 Dolby Surround track. Subtitles are provided in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai. The interactive menus are simple, but allow one to access the standard scene and language selection features.