Hello there, been lurking for a while, so I decide to join and post. I've been excited about a proper HD remaster of the original star wars trilogy ever since I got my first HDTV and saw just how beautiful HD content can look. I remember a few years back being all excited about Wookiegroomer's work. I much enjoy his work that was until I found out my copy of episode V became corrupt somehow and despite all my efforts I couldn't reacquire it. Those efforts though led me to this forum where at that time nobody else's work seemed to rival that of Wookiegroomer's. So I just moved on. Then I found out Star Wars would be getting a Blu-Ray release, unfortunately those releases would be altered like crazy. So I came back here hoping someone might take those Blu-Rays keep the good lossless audio and just undo all the bad things Lucas had done to the films. Nobody was doing this however. More recently though I discovered this work-in-progress and am now excited again.
Everything I've read in this thread and the original thread all has me eagerly anticipating the release. I do have a couple questions though and if these are better suited for the other thread we can move the discussion there. Before I get to my questions though I just want to add that Wookiegroomer's work excited me because his work was the first serious full (1080p) HD release of all 6 Star Wars movies. Plus his work tried to make the movies look and be more like the originals. Also, then the Blu-Ray releases excited me a little because I thought maybe then we could get HD originals NOW with lossless audio (mostly). Point is I'm big on image quality and having good sound.
So my questions are as follows. In the OP you say you'll be doing 25GB (mkv and burnable to Blu-Ray) releases but given that most commercial Blu-Ray releases today use 50GB discs is there any chance you might reconsider you position and go with a nice high quality release that would be suited for a 50GB Blu-Ray disc? Other question is in regards to the audio. Will it be lossless (and lpcm would be fine if using TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio isn't an option), that is if it can even be lossless? I know Dolby Digital is kind of a go to standard for sound but I just think if you're going to go the extra mile in terms of image quality why not do so with the sound quality? I mean I know some people out there have really great sound systems so the better the sound can be the more I know those kind of people as well as everyone else will be more than satisfied.
That's all I have for now. Oh and by the way I did check out that 1080p trailer you made. It is a little rough but I definitely love what I am seeing to so far.