Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
Rating:
Label: Columbia/Tristar Home Video
DVD Format: Keep Case, Widescreen Anamorphic, 2.35:1, Closed Captioned, Color, Sides:1 (SS-RSDL)
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Audio Track 2: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Audio Track 3: Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Two Deleted Scenes
Documentary: The World Of The Dark Crystal (60 min.)
Original Language Workprint Scenes
Character Drawings and Profiles
Michel Hafner (3 January 2000):
This DVD version of _Dark Crystal, The (1982)_ by Columbia/Tristar is of good quality.
The film master used is pretty good. The are speckles in many scenes, but not distracting. Image steadiness is ok. Contrast rendition is good. The many dark scenes have deep blacks and nice shadow detail. Colors are even a bit better. The saturated colors of the world of the Skeksis and the more pastel colors of the mystics look great. Sharpness of this 16:9 enhanced DVD is ok, but could be better. The noise and grain level is mostly pretty low. Concerning video artifacts the presence of some over-enhanced edges should be mentioned (for example on the planetary machine in Aughra's lab). At the start of chapter 19 (about 8 seconds into the chapter) there is a mastering glitch. Looks like some fields can not be properly put together to full frames. Compression is good but does not fully use the capacity of the dual layer disc, it seems. The film has no layer break, I think. So more than one layer is used for supplements alone.
This DVD is well made. It will hardly disappoint on any kind of display. The supplements contain deleted scenes and scenes from a workprint with the creatures talking in their own languages instead of English. These scenes are interesting, but hard to enjoy since they have awful image quality (worse than VHS). The master looks not like a work print but some horrible video tape. I'd rather not get this kind of quality in the supplements and use the bits instead for better material or the main feature. Your mileage may vary. The trailers have better image quality but still considerably worse than the film.
DVD Format: Widescreen Anamorphic, 2.35:1, Closed Captioned, Color
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Audio Track 2: French, Dolby Digital 5.1
New High Definition Film Transfer
New Commentary from Brian Froud
Original Making of Documentary “The World of the Dark Crystal”
Deleted Scenes
Work Print Scenes
Character Drawings
Reflections of the Dark Crystal: “Light on the Path of Creation” & Shard of Illusion” Two All-New behind the scenes documentaries that include rediscovered footage from the Henson archives and newly recorded interviews with the people who created The Dark Crystal
Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
Rating:
DVD Format: Box Set, Widescreen Anamorphic, 2.35:1, Closed Captioned, Color
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Audio Track 2: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Audio Track 3: Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Gift Set contains commemorative senitype & a collector's booklet with reproduction of never-before-seen concept notes by Jim Henson
Digitally remastered
Deleted funeral scenes
Documentary: "The World of The Dark Crystal" (60 min.)
Original language workprint scenes
Character drawings and profiles
New to this edition: Henson storyboards and character drawings
New to this edition: "The Mithra Treatment," Jim Henson's original treatment of the film
New to this edition: Character illustrations
Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
Rating:
Label: Columbia/Tristar Studios
DVD Format: Box Set, Widescreen Anamorphic, 2.35:1, Closed Captioned, Color, Sides:1
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Audio Track 2: Spanish, Unknown
Making Of
Deleted "funeral" scenes (Dark Crystal)
Character drawings and profiles (Dark Crystal)
Original language workprint scenes (Dark Crystal)
NOTE: "Labyrinth" is Surround only and does not contain a Spanish dub track
Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
Rating:
DVD Format: Keep Case, Widescreen Anamorphic, 1.85:1, Color, Sides:1
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, Audio Track 1: English, DTS, Audio Track 2: English, Dolby Digital 5.1
Region: 2 (Western Europe, Japan, South Africa, Middle East, Egypt)
Rating:
Label: Columbia Tri-Star Home Video
DVD Format: Snap Case, 2.35:1, 0, Color, Sides:1
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Audio Track 2: French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Audio Track 3: Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Audio Track 4: German, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Interactive Menus, Scene Selection, 60 Minute Featurette
Deleted Scenes, Filmographies, Teaser Trailer
Theatrical Trailer, Character Profiles
Region: 2 (Western Europe, Japan, South Africa, Middle East, Egypt)
Rating: 
DVD Format: Snap Case, Widescreen Anamorphic, Pan & Scan , 2.35:1, Color, Sides:1 (SS-DL)
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Audio Track 1: French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Audio Track 2: English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Audio Track 3: Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Audio Track 4: , Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Pré-film-annonce V.O.sous-titrée
Bestiaire des personnages
Making Of avec interviews (60mn V.O.sous-titrée)
7 scènes supplémentaires
Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
Rating:
Label: Columbia/Tristar Studios
DVD Format: Keep Case, Widescreen Anamorphic, 2.35:1, Closed Captioned, Color, Sides:1 (SS-DL)
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Audio Track 2: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Audio Track 3: Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Making Of
Deleted "funeral" scenes (Dark Crystal)
Character drawings and profiles (Dark Crystal)
Original language workprint scenes (Dark Crystal)
NOTE: "Labyrinth" is Surround only and does not contain a Spanish dub track
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