Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) [LV 1643-2WS]

After being a bit disappointed at the aliasing on Raiders, I popped in what is the only other truly great Indy film, the 1984 serial adventure, Temple of Doom.

For a 1992 disc, this is damn near reference quality. The print source is outstanding with only about 10 print specks for the entire feature. Color is spot on, fine detail is actually present, the scope frame is intact and toggling between this and the Lowry scrubbed DVD shows that the LD still holds it's own.

But the audio is the real winner, as with Raiders. These discs feature the theatrical Dolby Stereo matrixed tracks form the 35mm general release. They're not going to be as clear or defined as the 5.1 tracks on DVD which have been cleaned up and noise reduced from the 70mm masters. (At least Raiders was, don't know about the sequels.) But this matrix mix isn't afraid to slam you right into the back wall for two hours. Excellent SQ, so good that I may even prefer it to the DVD's more defined 5.1 simply because this one feels rawer.
Gatefold is slightly glossy and beautiful.
The only downside is that the film is even placed across three sides, so no CAV side 3 like most others.

One of the best LDs I've ever spun.
PQ: 5/5
AQ: 5/5

The disc has the fully directional dialog too - the actors voices move across the soundstage matching the position of the speaker instead of being locked to the center channel like so many Dolby mixes. Its a wonderful disc.

Exactly! That's exactly what I've loved so much about both discs, not only is the dialogue accurately panned across channels with movement, but so is the score/effects with particularly a lot of swelling the score back and forth in RAIDERS.