rockin said:

They look really good.

But I am wondering Harmy, for this next release are you going to make higher bitrate versions available and offer even more audio?

I know that for ANH, you are using Ady's AVCHD so you are limited there, but Ady has a 13gb ESB that is in .mkv format which is a much higher bitrate than his AVCHD, and for ROTJ you probably already know that there are some high quality bitrate 2004 HD broadcasts.

Absolutely, I already said I'm going to use the 14GB MKV of Ady's ESB and higher bitrate versions of SW (I'm not using Ady's AVCHD of SW this time) and ROTJ. They will be 720p DVD9 AVCHDs; I'm absolutely decided on that, I don't want to make these Blu-Ray because I haven't got access to a BD burner and the uploads would be painful too but I want it to be playable on BD players. 720p looks great - actually I've got a 6,5GB 720p version of AOTC and it looks way better than an 8GB 1080p version because the compression took away more detail on the 1080p than what was gained by the resolution. I'll also be encoding HQ 2PASS this time to keep as much quality as possible, so don't worry. Noticing the loss of quality and detail in the previous PDE versions was actually the main reason that prompted me to make new versions, so I'll try to make these the highest possible quality given the source materials.

Also, for ROTJ will you be fixing the brightness thing at the end in the Luke Vs Vader throne room fight? I think they are a few frames in there that make the black bars white/grey from where you tweaked the brightness a bit.

Oh, absolutely, that is already fixed in the DVD reconstruction and it will be fixed in the new PDE as well.

As to the audio, I'm not sure I'll be adding anything else, each disc will definitely contain 3 audio tracks: hairy_hen's 5.1, Belbucus' 2.0 in some higher bitrate AC3 and a low bitrate Czech Dubing. And maybe some additional ones, if there's enough space, like the monomix for SW or maybe some commentary tracks.