After the usually Paramount multi-language copyright warning, there is a brief animated menu. The only real selection if the audio, a choice English 5.1, English Surround and French Surround. The movie is presented only in the letterbox format, which is just as well since most of the DVD users I know do not even turn to the pan and scan versions. The video quality is stunning. The clarity of the picture is better than that found in the theater.
Every little detail is crisp and clear.
You will notice the attention to detail that Cameron paid to every aspect of this production. The buttons on the dresses, the hairpins, the embroidery on the tablecloths, all appear with detail that rivals reality. Not only do the main characters and the center of the action display this attention to detail but the background and peripheral aspects of the scenes are rich with the little things that set this movie apart form so many others. Since the whole bandwidth of the disc is used for the movie you would expect no defects or artifacts. There was only a little evidence of a momentary stutter when the player moved to the second layer, the rest of the disc as near reference quality.