I came across something interesting tonight. Before I started watching some shows recorded on my DVR, I was flipping through some cable movie channels and came across the first James Bond movie DR. NO on Encores Mystery. What was interesting about it was that MGM/UA has rechanneled the sound into a Dolby 2.0 matrixed surround track. The sound on my DR. NO DVD is mono, so this must be something new they've done with the film for its next release on DVD, perhaps when it's released on a high def DVD in the next year. I suspect they've recycled all of the early mono-sound Bonds into Dolby Surround.
And, while it was obviously not recorded this way and there was echo and not a lot of low end to the sound, it was fun hearing the sound effects coming from the surround speakers. I watched the last 45 minutes of it just to see how different an experience it would be with this "new" soundtrack. Very.