While Walter Cronkite's narration is locked dead center, the voices of the astronauts and mission control technicians are localized in the rear channels, lending an otherworldly effect to the space missions. All voices are cleanly rendered with full intelligibility. Sound effects make effective use of the discrete nature of the format for precise placement in the sound field as well as believable panning between channels. The bass channel is nothing short of ground shaking, which makes the shuttle launches seem as if they are occurring inside your home theater. A French 5.1 channel soundtrack is also encoded onto the DVD, as are English, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.
Sound underscores the basic interactive menus, which provide access to the set up features.
Warner's super presentation of the film makes the acquisition of the DVD practically a no brainer.