Trivia / The Mind's Eye

• Direct to Video: All four films are released in this fashion. Formats are listed here:
  • All four films had VHS and LaserDisc releases.
    • Beyond and The Gate were released twice on LaserDisc. The latter to get a surround sound Remaster.
  • All films except the first one (The Mind's Eye (1990)) have had DVD releases.
  • All films except the last one (Odyssey Into to The Mind's Eye) were released on an obscure home video format called MovieCD.^{What's MovieCD?}It stored highly compressed video on CD-ROM discs. No players for it were made, as it was designed to play inside a computer.
  • The first two films were also released on Video8^note It's better known as a camcorder format, but it was trying to compete with VHS for home video usage after VHS beat Betamax. Also backed by Sony, just like Betamax. The Video8 releases were alternate cuts of the originals, and distributed by RadioShack. This made them known as the RadioShack versions of the films. These cuts were also released on VHS alongside the original cuts.
• Special Edition: links to comparisons are included
  • The Mind's Eye:
    • RadioShack distributed their own modified version of this. All segments were modified in some way except for "Creation", "Heart of the Machine", and "Love Found".
    • The final segment, "The Temple", is replaced with three new segments named "Q Factor", "Tingri", and "The Way I Feel", named after their songs. None of the new segments had music made by James Reynolds, who made all the music in the original.
    • The credits theme is also nearly twice as long to cite more sources.
  • Beyond the Mind's Eye:
    • Just like The Mind's Eye, this had its own RadioShack version. No segment is completely identical to the original version, and the credits theme is also 30 seconds longer. The segment "Nothing but Love" (which comes right after "Windows") was replaced with "Midnight" (which comes right before "Windows").
    • The DVD release of Beyond featured the vocal version of “Seeds of Life”. Unfortunately, the quality of the accompanying music video is horrifically (and somewhat hilariously) sub-standard for a video series showcasing various feats of computer animation.
  • The Gate to the Mind's Eye:
    • The audio was originally mastered in Stereo on VHS and LaserDisc in 1994. For the 1996 DVD release and the 1998 LaserDisc release, the sound was remastered in surround, and extra sound effects were added.
• Technology Marches On:
  • Most of the visuals showcased in this series became dated by the end of the century. This is mostly because computer-generated animations were in their infancy at the time; it only took a matter of a few years before the industry grew to the point that entire films were being made using computer graphics.
  • The Beyond segment "Too Far" appears to be a satire on how far technology has come and how pervasive it is in our lives. However, the most advanced technology shown is a computer which tells the viewer "It is too late. You have gone too far". Plus, it focuses more on television than computers. This was 1992, back when most people didn't have internet access, and when "dumb" cell phones without cameras were getting smaller.