Dunedain said:

I just got the 13GB version of the original trilogy (thanks, Wideload! :) ), and I've had the chance to watch a few seconds of Star Wars so far to see if the file works, and it looks incredible! :) I've never watched Star Wars in HD before, just amazing picture quality, so sharp and detailed! :) Thanks to Wookie Groomer for putting together such a great set! :)

I have a question about the set. I noticed the res of the video is 1920x820, is that the res it was originally broadcast in in Germany? Also, is the .WMV format the video is in the format it was originally recorded on by the DVR in Germany, or did it need to be converted to .WMV, and if so, why? If it was converted to .WMV for whatever reason, how was the bit-rate of the video conversion decided on so as to not lose any of the quality of the original file from the DVR? Thanks for any info. :)

I'd hazzard a guess and say that there in the WMV format so that there playable on the Xbox 360. The 360 can play these files with no problem if there connected via an external HD and that hard drive is formatted to HFS+ to allow the 12gb file size. The 360 will only read external drives in HFS+ or FAT32 (this means file sizes are limited to 4gb, which is a bit pointless for HD files).

I've noticed that wookiegroomers Episode 1 & 2 are currently being postes to a.b.hdtv.x264 by an anonymous poster. I'm hoping that they post episode 3 as well!