The dvd's we have now are not the versions I watched when I was a kid, those were full frame transfers on Vhs, and neither are they identical to the first theatrical releases.
There really should be a preservation similar to what Russ has done for star wars
by making many of the different versions and sound mixes available, Like the Cav Versions of Star wars and empire strikes back.
By the way, there are Cav full screen versions for both raiders and temple of doom, but not last crusade.
Isomix versions with the full soundtracks with unreleased tracks would also be really cool,
And maybe even the story of Raiders of the Lost ark LP produced exclusively for records by ben burtt!
I know i'm probalbly absolutely in the minority here, but I have always prefered films in stereophonic sound to dolby 5.1, especially if that is how they were filmed or recorded, rather than artificially created after the fact 30 years later. Although 5.1 and 6.1 and 7.1 are viable now, and create better spacialization stereo tracks should be included on releases, (also known as dolby 2.0) or better yet Pcm Stereo uncompressed!
The official star wars dvd release that everyone absolutely hates at least had the common sense to include them, it's very puzzling?
and furthermore just like the star wars trilogy release no deleted scenes or the original documentaries GRRR!
In fact so many of my favorite films have been butchered on dvd, that a laserdisc player is almost absolutely necessary to back up some of them for my private little collection. I have no hope that the studios will ever get anything right with classic films or older releases, even with blu ray or HD-DVD will we ever get anything close to the definitive edition transfer of star wars. Nope we won't, we will get lucas so called third draft or fourth draft versions of his super duper edition re-edits crap versions, and even better (Sarcasm People) Special Editions of the prequels oh joy!
and that's just the tip of the iceberg I was reading Droid maker and can you believe what they tried to pull on Tom Holman ( Creator and original Engineer of The THX sound system) when he left the company, read the book and you will see what I mean.