NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were ripped directly from the Blu-ray disc.

Firstly my SD-DVD is the snapper-cased issue from 2000 - NOT the Deluxe Edition Anniversary one from 2006 although it is Included with the Blu-ray - see capture sample below!

Colors take a dramatic shift in Warner's new How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Blu-ray. The Who-ville trees and wreaths become fluorescent and the Grinch himself goes from a brownish pale to a brilliant lime green. I can't really talk about the colors as I have no idea what the animator's original intention was but the DVD looks a lot more like the broadcast version I've seen every year of my life at Christmas. The Blu-ray seems more in-line with the Jim Carrey variety of Grinch. Frankly it didn't take me long to adjust as seeing it look so different - and it had it's appeal but essentially it will be a personal preference as to your acceptance of it. Another big difference is in the prevalent artifacts on the single-layered SD-DVD transfer - plus there are less speckles and dirt on the new Blu-ray. We get a tad more information in the frame on the 1080P rendering. The disc itself only takes up 7 measly Gig (the feature itself a puny 4.5!) - making it the smallest Blu-ray of all time but it eclipses the 3.5 single-layered DVD with almost 4 times its bitrate.

Audio-wise it appears as though Warner haven't budged an inch with the same 192 Kbps track that appears on the DVD although Mr. Karloff sounded cleaner to some degree. NO HD-option, NO DUBs (the DVD has optional French or Spanish) and only English subtitles are available as an option where the DVD gives French and Spanish again too. My Momitsu has identified it as being a region FREE disc playable on Blu-ray machines worldwide.

My suggestion is to stack a Blu-ray (it has the space!) with a whole pile of Christmas favorites (ex. like this and A Charlie Brown Christmas, and throw in Horton! a non-holiday favorite etc.) - don't spread them across multiple disc packages!