Yep. "He could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create...life. He had such a knowledge of the Dark Side, he could even keep the ones he cared about...from dying..."

So, it's potentially back on between Luke and Leia then...

WOW there are 375 pages, yow! how do I burn the m2ts to disk? imageburn did not work

At this point, I'm more excited for Harmy to move on to ESB than I am for the 2.5 BD.

That being said....... I can't wait to see more of the video features.  Everything Harmy produces is simply excellent.  He really has the Midas touch

I haven't downloaded anything since the 2.0 mkv, so I'm still anxiously waiting for the BD release.  But I too am glad that Harmy will be moving on to ESB & ROTJ for updated releases after the BD.

Would any kind soul send me a myspleen invite?

Really want to get a look at the despecialized versions!

For the MKV would it be worth having more lossless tracks since there is no BD25 restriction? I know I have the 70mm 5.1, 77 Digital Stereo and 85 Digital Stereo mixes in lossless as well as h_h's new isolated score again in lossless.

 I definitely want to see h_h's 70mm 5.1 DTS-HD Master with the MKV.

I have the Belbucus Mono and the Schorman Stereo mixes which are, as far as I understand, the best 77 mono and stereo preservations. (Although I understand h_h was working on fixing the Schorman Stereo sync) I can upload them and send links on Tuesday (GMT+12).

I haven't posted much recently, due to being busy with various things, but I haven't forgotten.  ;)

Actually I've had a rather exciting new development, in that I now have access to official Dolby software, which means I can upmix with real Prologic II and record the result directly into Pro Tools.  (This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, but only now have finally been able to make it happen.)  I'm currently running tests to determine how much of an improvement this would be over the existing 5.1 mix; if it's to my liking, then a new version will soon be on its way.

The main potential benefit of this would be improved separation—less leakage of sound from one channel to another.  There have been occasional comments about it being an issue, so this should help on that account.  I may edit the LFE track ever so slightly, but on the whole it will still be virtually identical to the previous mix.

I'm also able to make use of the official AC3 encoder.  When I tested it in comparison to the freeware version I'd been using before, the improvement in quality was immediately apparent.  I've learned that this is because there are various coding tricks Dolby came up with to improve efficiency, resulting in superior sound at the same bitrates, which unofficial encoders do not duplicate even though they produce output compatible with the AC3 spec.  The improvement over the previous version is most obvious for 5.1 at 448 kbps (which is most significant for the DVD), but every track will certainly benefit from this, so I consider it highly necessary.

On the lossless front, I can encode in both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA, so I suppose it comes down to whichever one has greater compatibility.  I know that VLC can play any Dolby file but not DTS, due to licensing issues or some such, but I don't know what other people use to watch HD files on their computers, or what works best with mkv in general.

Harmy could you include some fan commentaries from Zarban.com