Matt_Stevens said:

Anyway... Last night was an absolute blast. This was the most fun I have had watching STAR WARS since the 80's. Harmy's work is jaw dropping. I would do some things differently, yes, but I can respect and admire the incredible effort that went into this.

I'm really glad you and your nieces had a good time watching this :-)

I hope that in the future a higher bit rate BD will be available. At 720p squeezed onto a DVD9 compression issues are obvious to my eyes, though admittedly few will care or even notice. Most people wouldn't know artificial edge enhancement if it smacked them across the face. I'm guessing the 17GB mkv looks better. Unfortunately I can't see it on my current setup.

Yes you can - or I assume you can, since when you say you'd prefer a BD version, I assume you do have a BD burner - if that's the case, you can simply use TS muxer to remux the MKV to a BD folder or ISO and burn a fully functioning Blu Ray disc. It doesn't have PCM sound but it does have the three original tracks in DTS-HD, which to my understanding should be exactly the same quality, only at much lower bitrate.

Also, SW v2.5 and ESB v2.0 AVCHDs and DVD5s are now up on paradox on mega.