There was a lot of angry debate on the Laserdisc newsgroup about DD soundtracks sounding a heck of a lot better on LD than their newer DVD counterparts during the brief time both formats coexisted.

The prevailing theory was that 5.1 DVD soundtracks were being compromised to be more compatible with being downmixed in the player to pro logic for those with older receivers.

DVD soundtracks never really wowed me until I got my first Dolby Digtal decoder, but I had years of listening to uncompressed LD soundtracks as to what I thought things should sound like. I didn't get that "WOW!" Laserdisc feeling back until I heard my first PCM Blu Ray audio track.