I think what digitalfreaknyc is getting at is even though the HD Broadcast version is indeed a step up form the dvd the more you compress a movie the more fine detail is lost and more motion artifacts are introduced. Its just a simple fact, because both VC-1 and AVC are lossy compression algorithms and there is nothing getting around it. Its like compressing a dvd which has mpeg2 at at least 4.5 GB -> 700 MB AVC encode. Sure for the most part it looks pretty good compared to the DVD, but when you actually examine the footage you do start to see blockiness in fast motion scenes and fine detail is lost throughout. I actually made my own personal version of SW-Revisited (just has a couple of tweaks that were for my own personal tastes)and it took an AVC encode of about 2800MB to make an encode that stood up a 120" screen. The scene that really was my benchmark oddly enough was inside Ben's hut because of the texture on the wall kept getting blocky at lower compression rates.

Now on topic... Ady I know you may be doing minor tweaks to the movies themselves (Han shoots first , etc) Any chance you can just yank out "Jedi Rocks"? I know you can't put in Lapti Nek with the orginal puppets, but the new song and dance number is awful. Hell I wouldn't mind an abrupt "cut to next scene" over having to being yanked out the movie completly with the horrible CG critters.