Lee Kline, Criterions technischer Direktor, hat Video Business verraten, warum die ersten Blu-ray Discs des New Yorker Labels etwas später als geplant auf den Markt kommen werden:

If our Blu-ray discs are going to come out, then they’d better look right. [...] We had to make sure that the compression was right, that the audio encoding was up to par. And we had to make sure that the discs played on all players, particularly the older generation models, as well as PlayStation 3.

Bei Criterion hat man sich außerdem dazu entschlossen, nicht die typische blaue Blu-ray Verpackung zu verwenden:

In a notable packaging decision, Criterion’s Blu-ray discs will not be housed in the traditional blue-colored Blu-ray boxes that the major studios have adopted. Nor will they carry the Blu-ray Disc logo. Rather, the Criterion titles will carry a small credit on the back of the box indicating that the title is in the Blu-ray format, and there will be a blue sticker on the shrink wrap indicating the same.