[SteveB]

I just watched Grand Prix HD on my XA2. I was really looking forward to watching this since I remembered it having some great racing scenes and I remembered it as having pretty good two channel sound for it's day.
Boy, was I disappointed. PQ was OK. I was really disappointed in the sound. I played with speaker volumes from both the receiver and the XA2 to see if I could get a better surround sound but nothing helped much. I guess I was expecting to hear the cars drive across my room as they went across the screen. The only time I really noticed much was when the camera was in one car that was following another. The engine sound all went to the rear speakers. I'm not sure if I was listening to the engine in the car the camera was riding in or it was supposed to be the sound of the car in front. Even that wasn't consistent though, as cars went into tunnels the sound all switched to the front speakers then to the backs as they exited the tunnel. Oh well.
Anyone else played this movie? Your impressions? Do older movies just not translate into HD and surround sound well?