MGM is giving consumers a pretty nice anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) transfer for these DVDs. There's still a hint of grain in some shots, especially light grey skies or similar colors. Colors look great, and the widescreen transfer makes use of the frame; I believe season 6 was the first one to air in widescreen after jumping to the Sci-Fi Channel.

Stargate is presented in anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen, and for the most part, it looks quite nice. Color saturation is excellent, with vibrant hues and natural flesh tones, and the prints are largely free of dirt or debris. Unfortunately, the picture clarity suffers a bit; on close up shots, the transfers spotlight nice levels of detail, but as the camera pulls out, the sharpness degrades accordingly. Consequently, contrasts are a bit spotty, as well. Blacks are deep and rich, but shadow delineation is pretty poor. The visual noise problem that plagued earlier sets has been completely eliminated, and as a whole, this is probably the best looking of all the Stargate sets to date.

Each disc was crammed full of “stuff”, whether the episodes or extras, the video seemed to be heavily compressed. As a result we didn’t necessarily forfeit in the clarity aspect, but rather there were several occasions in each episode when the picture was “choppy.” In others words there was a highly noticeable drop in frame rate throughout each episode. I found this tiresome on the eyes and highly annoying. Again I was very disappointed with this.