Mill Creek Entertainment reissued the first two seasons of Miami Vice on DVD in May 2016, the picture quality is remastered and improved compared to the earlier Universal releases (2005, 2014). The dirt and scratch has been noticeably cleaned up, the picture is not as dark, looks sharper, definite improvement, this is based on comparison of the Pilot episode between Mill Creek's 2016 Region 1 NTSC reissue and Region 2-4 PAL Australian release from 2008 by Universal. The Mill Creek source apparently comes from new HD remasters, too bad they are not pressed on Blu-Ray discs.
The new DVD sets are priced really cheap, $14.99 suggested retail and half off on Amazon. All episodes are on just 4 DVD discs (as opposed to six discs for Universal's single-sided reissues a few years ago or even fewer episodes per disc on 2008 R2 release which had 8 discs) which has to affect overall picture quality but not noticeable to me. The MillCreek Disc 1 has the Pilot (not the two-part version as on the Region 2 release but as single movie of 1 hour 37 mins), and episodes 2 (48:45), 3 (48:46), 4 (48:53), 5 (47:42), all on Disc 1. That's six episodes on one disc! (One of the four discs has just 5 episodes, all others six!) The Mill Creek DVD does not have the 20 secs Universal intro/logo at the beginning of each episode, otherwise they seem to be identical episodes. I have compared episodes between Mill Creek 2016 release and Universal Region 1 2014 reissue (Disc One was not present in my set):
Pilot: 1:36:43 (2016)
Heart of Darkness: 48:44 (2016)
Cool Runnin': 49:01 (2014), 48:46 (2016)
Calderone's Return:Part 1: 49:02 (2014), 48:53 (2016)
Calderone's Return: Part 2: 47:56 (2014), 47:42 (2016)
One Eyed Jack: 48:58 (2014), 48:47 (2016)
No Exit: 49:03 (2014), 48:50 (2016)
The Great McCarthy: 49:04 (2014), 48:48 (2016)
Glades: 48:28 (2014), 47:45 (2016): 40 secs difference here could be significant
Give a Little, Take a Little: 48:42 (2014), 48:31 (2016)
Little Prince: 48:23 (2014), 48:10 (2016)
Milk Run: 48:58 (2014), 48:45 (2016)
Golden Triangle Part 1: 48:30 (2014), 48:17 (2016)
Golden Triangle Part 2: 48:35 (2014), 48:20 (2016)
Smuggler's Blues: 49:00 (2014), 48:51 (2016)
Rites of Passage: 49:01 (2014), 48:47 (2016)
The Maze: 48:58 (2014), 48:47 (2016)
Made For Each Other: 48:57 (2014), 48:46 (2016)
The Home Invaders: 49:18 (2014), 49:07 (2016)
Nobody Lives Forever: 49:02 (2014), 48:51 (2016)
Evan: 48:58 (2014), 48:41 (2016)
Lombard: 49:02 (2014), 48:48 (2016)
Audio on 2016 release: 5.1 Dolby Digital and 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo, no additional languages. The 5.1 has a problem on Episode 2 in several scenes when the audio sounds echoed, the Dolby Digital Stereo is fine.
There is no booklet, all 4 discs are on top of each other in a regular DVD case.
The biggest problem is that there are no subtitles for this 2016 reissue and also no bonus features, the ones from Universal's Season 1 sets were not ported over but they weren't that essential anyway, yet some bonus features would have been nice. The 2014 reissue had English, French, Spanish subtitles and I think all Universal season sets have at least English subtitles.
I recently also purchased the Universal single sided disc reissue from 2014, which had duplicated Disc Six, just hope someone will get this Season 1 release right someday: on Blu Ray, with subtitles, better Bonus features, no audio issues, all discs present, I am hoping!