It s a single-sided, single layered disk containing both an English Dolby Digital 5.1 and an English Dolby 2.0 Surround soundtrack. The video quality on this disk is very good and the colorful cinematography shows up quite nicely. There are wide-ranging hues used here, chiefly of the earth tone family representing browns, greens and tans. Color saturation is very good and the transitions are smooth with adequate detail. Flesh tones may appear a bit on the orange side, but that s due primarily to an overuse of makeup in my opinion.
Black level is also good and a high degree of shadow detail is evident.
The print itself is blemish-free as would be expected. There are a couple of dots here and there, but nothing more than you d see in the theater. Compression artifacts were also few and far between although I could detect some edge enhancement along the mountain ranges as they contrasted with the background sky. The authors are certainly not guilty of overuse as far as enhancements go, but one still has to wonder on a picture as recent and as richly detailed as this one why it s used at all. Overall though, the transfer quality on this DVD is very good.