innerSpaceman said:
Pfft, I'll go you one better (or worse) - I don't even know what myspleen is.
Though I can figure it out from context. Damn, I'm old. Eh, my computer set-up would likely take days to download something like this, even if I knew how.
But ... if anyone could answer a question for an old geezer who got his drivers licence about the same time Star Wars came out in '77, I'd appreciate it:
What's the difference between the download file that's apparently available now and the blu-ray file(s) that Harmy is planning to release later? I'm not in any hurry, but I would so love to be able to watch Harmy's 2.0 at some point.
The Blu-Ray will have the same video stream. Some of the audio streams will be in lossless, uncompressed format; there may be more translations and such added by the time the BD comes out, tool. There'll be some other secret goodies too...in addition to super-nice menus and the like.
The MKV that has been released will play in many of today's BluRay players, but will not fit on a standard dual layer DVD, aka a DVD9. You'll have to stream it over your network, or put it on a USB stick or external hard-drive (if your BD player even has a USB port. Meanwhile, you'd have to make sure your USB stick/hard drive is formatted in NTFS or some other format than the prevailing FAT32, because this file is nearly 16GB, whilst the file-size of single files in FAT32 is capped at 4GB. I don't use the USB functionality on my BD player so I dunno). The easiest way to watch this version, if you don't want to deal with setting up a network or copying this file to a stick, is to have a laptop with an HDMI out and using Media Player Classic Home Cinema for playback. If you're technically minded and don't have or want a BD player, I'd recommend getting a Raspberry Pi (I have one) or similar mini-computer, but for everyone else, just connecting your laptop via HDMI should be fine.
An AVCHD version, which is basically a Bluray shrunk to DVD size, will be released, with a bunch of the audio tracks stripped out and the video encoded at a lower bitrate.
Hope this helps.