Reddit reviews Babylon 5: The Gathering/In the Beginning

Yes, that's the first B5 DVD, the one with the Warner Brothers label on the back.

I just checked my copy, and I was wrong. It didn't get released in the mid 1990s, it was released in 2001.

ISBN 0-7907-6076-2 is the ISBN; it's the first edition, and it's what aired in 1993, warts and all. 4:3 aspect ratio, Dolby Stereo (5:1? What's that?), and DVD "extras" of "Scene Selections" and "Cast and Crew" snapshots.

Ah, the early days of DVDs, I remember them well, if not fondly.

I see in a thread here that some people bought the same disk, or at least the same packaging, and got the TNT special edition. I dragged out my USB DVD player to check, and yes, I remembered correctly. Mine is the original airing, Stewart Copeland music and all.

The PTen version runs 1:29:24, the TNT Special Edition from the Movie Collection is 1:34:42.

Here's the title card from the DVD menu.

I should mention that I'm in Canada, and I bought this thing in the store pretty much the week it came out, so I know it's definitely from one of the initial print runs. I guess we got the international edition.