Dunedain said:

That's interesting, I thought hairy hen had used primarily the Definitive Collection laserdisk with some of the 1997 SE laserdisk for the latest version (version 2.0, I guess) of his Star Wars 70mm theatrical soundtrack reconstruction/restoration. Has he switched to an even better more accurate source for his restoration?

I assume when you say DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack you are referring to the Star Wars 70mm reconstruction, since I think that's the only such soundtrack on the V1 Star Wars Blu-ray. But maybe there's more than one DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack on the V2 Star Wars Blu-ray.

No, they're referring to the '97 Special Edition Blu-Ray, which will contain the audio from the original theatrical DTS CD ROMs converted to DTS-MA.

To the best of my knowledge, hairy hen's 70 mm reconstruction is built primarily out of the 93 DC LD mix, with bits from other pre-'97 sources to delete the additions, with pretty much the only post-'97 element being the .1 (bass channel) track. I could be wrong about specifics.

Question: How does the theatrical DTS standard differ from the home video incarnation (assuming 1536 kb/s)? How much advantage is gained by presenting it in DTS-MA? Or is it just being done in this manner to avoid any possible transcoding issues?