Noticeable film grain shows up from time to time, but it never becomes bothersome. Colors are usually vivid and the flesh tones appear rather healthy. There are no problems with chroma noise or bleeding of the more intense hues during the presentation. Blacks are a deep inky black and the picture provides a respectable level of shadow detail, which maintains the depth of the image. The Dolby Digital monaural soundtrack lacks any appreciable distortion.
Dialogue is crisp and always intelligible.
The music has fairly good frequency response and sounds pretty good when amplified. Subtitles are encoded onto the DVD in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai. The basic interactive menus allow one access to the standard scene selection and set up features, as well as a few cool supplements. Harryhausen fans will appreciate the Ray Harryhausen Chronicles , an hour-long look at the life and career of the special effects wizard, narrated by Leonard Nimoy.