captainsolo said:

Speaking of Dolby Stereo, Batman sounds like crud on DVD/Blu-ray. Very confined and almost tinny in places. The LD features the original Dolby Stereo with really exceptional split surrounds, that in my rig (5.1 setup playing ProLogic) almost sounds like 5.1 in places. I really enjoy the film more this way, and have made excuses to watch my LD many times in the past few months.

I wonder what the 6-track sounded like compared to the Dolby Stereo. For a lot of these movies, I wonder if the 70mm was just a higher-quality, discrete version of the mix used for the 35mm, maybe with a little "baby boom" added. I don't recall the 70mm prints of Star Trek II or Ghostbusters sounding different.

(However, I can't judge ST2 fairly, since at the screening I attended, the print was apparently not run through a proper Dolby Stereo 6-Track decoder, so the treble and upper midrange would shoot up to ear-splitting levels every time there was a loud sound effect. As with Ghostbusters, I believe NSBulk attended the same screening in L.A., and if so he could vouch for this.)