One of the major attractions of this delightful fantasy film is the music of Benny Herrmann. In the second laser disc release the music sound track was in stereo. It was the only Harryhausen Sinbad movie released on video which had a stereo sound track. I cannot understand how Columbia TriStar could release this in "fat" mono on DVD. They did a great video transfer formatted for 16x9 Tvs. I still recommend buying the DVD, but regret the audio oversight. I'm keeping my laser disc.