A Christmas Story (1983 version) comes to single-layered DVD with a standard full-screen aspect ratio. It also includes the following audio track options: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), and Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), with subtitles available in English, Spanish, and French. Closed-captioning is also included, but special features consist only of the usual original theatrical trailers. The plastic DVD case contains a chapter index. Sound and picture are roughly consistent with a VHS-quality film, but the sound is mono throughout the DVD version.