For video show-off: Any Pixar or direct-to-DVD transfers like A Bugs Life and Tpy Story. They're just jaw-droppers especially on full-screen or 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Until I get a 16:9 plasma TV, can't say many DVDs can be show-offs visually, All those 2.35:1 aspects, they, even the superbits, look pathetiicaly small on a 29" 4:3 TV. Unless I zoom them 1.5x.
But on the audio side, with aggreesive mixes, deep and strong bass, active and split surrounds and lush background music, here's my list, to mention some:
Saving Private Ryan,
Lord Of The Rings
Armageddon
Jurassic Park
True Lies
The Fifth Element, Superbit
The Mummy/The Mummy Returns
The Hunted
Atlantis
Pearl Harbor (attack scenes)
Earl Klugh, The Jazz Channel
Kenny Loggins, Live outside fron the Redwoods
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