hairy_hen said:

Is that the original Fox logo, also? It occurs to me that it could be used for an adywan-style recreation of the original Star Wars, if it is the same one (clearly it is of much higher quality than the GOUT). I never really looked at it closely before, though.

Yes, that's the original Fox logo used throughout the seventies, the same one on the original Star Wars and Empire. I'm glad to see they restored it.

hairy_hen said:

What about the audio tracks? I think msycamore said something about it being the 70mm version, but I haven't seen that information anywhere else. I would have thought they'd use the same mix as the '03 dvd, but then I also thought it would be a 1080p version of that same transfer, but it looks like they went all out with a completely new one. I don't know anything about the differences between the various audio mixes.

Yes, they're including the original 70mm audio tracks for Alien and Aliens in lossy Dolby 4.1 surround and the new remixed tracks in lossless DTS, the remixed tracks are very close to their original counterparts as I understand it but it's nice to see they are including the original ones, (in a perfect world the original tracks should be the default track and in lossless ;) Anyway, for the earlier DVD releases of Aliens they simply created split surrounds to make a 5.1 mix of the 70mm track. I don't know of any differences in content between the 70mm and the regular 35mm version.

For Alien there is differences between the 35mm and 70mm, some alternate dialogue, rough sound editing, different/enhanced sound effects, and it also missing some dialogue which was on the 35mm version. For example Dallas "God morning, Mother." is an alternate take and the line "Kane's son" is missing from the 70mm. I believe the lossless track on this release is the same Directors' Cut DTS-track that was included on the DVD, I'm not so familiar with that one, as I only own the 20th anniversary DVD.