Obviously, every dollar of the film's 200 million-dollar budget is up on the screen. Of course, one has to look at the situation from a marketing standpoint, and not the viewpoint of a DVD consumer. Detail is usually excellent, with only the occasional shot not overflowing with visual information. Color reproduction is utterly impeccable throughout the presentation. Colors are warm and vibrant during the first part of the film, however they begin to turn a cold Cameron blue after Titanic strikes the iceberg.
Saturation is always excellent, as are the flesh tones.
Neither chroma noise nor bleeding effected color reproduction in any way. Blacks are absolutely perfect and the image always provides very good shadow detail. Contrast is usually very good, but there are a couple of spots where the brightness of the image seemed a tad too hot. Artifacts are almost undetectable for this 194-minute film, plus the layer transition is virtually seamless on my player. The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack is absolutely astounding.