The video quality is fairly good although it appeared a bit soft in a few scenes on the big home theater screen. Colors are nicely rendered with adequate sharpness and definition. The colors were not overly saturated and remained accurate throughout. On the whole, the color palette is fairly wide and there are some nice exteriors to look at as well as vibrant office interiors. After all, the lead character works for an ad agency and there are some clever materials hanging on the walls that are brought out pleasantly by the video quality.
Black levels are very good giving the film a lot of shadow detail and extra depth.
Oddly, I found the darker scenes to offer more detail than the lighter ones which sometimes appeared a just a wee bit blanched. Unfortunately, there s a lot of edge enhancement to be found among the high contrast white background scenes. Ringing was not only evident with the tough to handle telephone poles, hanging wires and rooftops, but I also saw it outlining Affleck s shoulders from time to time and that s not a good thing. There were no blemishes in the film stock nor were there any major compression artifact problems to deal with. The overall video presentation was nice, but detracted from to some extent by the overuse of the enhancement process.