Looking forward to it, d_j!
Sounds good having two versions, a maximum video bitrate is a good thing for those with big screens and high quality de-interlacing/scaling to take advantage of it, and of course I like the 5.1 mixes. ;) But plenty of people will want to have the choice of audio options. Hmm, maybe I'll have to see if I can get both. lol
So what's the final tally on the audio tracks? There's theatrical stereo, mono, 70mm 5.1, '85 and '93 mixes for Star Wars; and Empire and Jedi have theatrical and '93 stereo and music-edited 5.1, if I'm not mistaken. The 5.1 versions are 448 kbps, are the stereo tracks 192, and 96 for the mono?
Maybe we should see about getting copies of these to that prillaman fellow who used to review various Star Wars dvd's, along with an in-depth description of all the work that's gone into them. I'm sure he'd be interested in seeing what's been going in the fan preservation world, since the combined efforts of everyone who has contributed to these has ended up in a much higher quality project than previous attempts at preserving the original trilogy, even with the limits of the source material available. Hmm . . .