I'm uploading the files now . . . my connection speed isn't terrible, but it's going slower than I'd like, unfortunately. It will probably be several hours.

Yeah, when I said DTS I was referring to using the 1997 theatrical discs as a source for the bass, on the theory that it might improve the sound quality over the laserdisc, but I'm not actually going to do that at this point.

For right now I've got the 5.1 in AC3 at 640 kbps, so it's at the maximum possible quality the codec allows. I'll encode one at 448 later on for use with standard definition projects, and I'm hoping to have a DTS-HD MA version also, which would be 16-bit lossless with a 1509 kbps core.

Regardless of which version you listen to, though, it's going to sound great. ;)