I have to admit, I'm getting to where I prefer the PCM Dolby Surround downmixes on LD rather than the 5.1 lossy DVD.

HH, I think you're right on Goldeneye being the most artistic surround mix of the Bonds. I think Tomorrow Never Dies is the best actual mix (and boy does that get loud!!!) but Goldeneye is more playful. (something to do with the score maybe?) I do need to get another version because every time I pop in the UE even in stereo it doesn't have the low end I'm used to. Even the DTS track.

Certainly Apocalypse. FF, if you have the original 93 Letterbox LD try the PCM stereo track. It's as close as we're ever going to get to the original theatrical 4.1 surround, and the dynamic range is unbelievable! Walter Murch put the whole soundtrack through Dolby ProLogic processing to get on the LD and there was no other processing done. I have the 5.1 LD as well, and that PCM doesn't sound as immersive.

Good suggestions on Pixar films. They always do have a good sound mix don't they? Toy Story 3 was the first theatrical Dolby 7.1 release. (If you could find an equipped theater that is.)

I'm still watching everything in SD, and my receiver is about 10 years old so no Dolby EX and other goodies. I think the best sounding thing I own besides LD PCM is my DTS LD of The Shadow. I keep returning to it, because it just sounded so clean and balanced. It hearkens back to my childhood when theaters were in the midst of the DTS/Dolby codec war. Back then the mixers were always trying to top the other company and some serious $$ was spent on sound systems. Now it doesn't matter. What happened to being able to go to a preferred location to get a THX certified theater showing a movie in DTS and then get that loud DTS logo?