Jonno said:

77FN said:

Chewtobacca said:

Jonno said: Is there a quick route to BD-friendly video without re-encoding?

No.

I own an oppo bdp-83 which I believe is compatible with several color spaces. Can I therefore still burn this with the usual bluray folders, or will this not work?

I think the issue is that, while decent BD players support a range of colorspace outputs, the BD video spec is only ever 4:2:0. Still it may be worth passing the file through tsMuxer to see if you can get away with structuring it that way, and see what your player makes of it.
And as for watching something like this on a PC (as distinct from HTPC), I can't imagine that would be a very pleasurable experience - don't folks like to get immersed in movies any more?

It's a shame it wasn't released with bluray compliant burning in mind, though I suspect their reasons for doing so may have partially been to lesson the likelihood of any sellers palming discs off on Ebay for a profit. I went and ordered a blurry burner and discs a couple days back too - doh! That'll teach me for being so impulsive... I can play it on my Mac mini, but the cinema gear is downstairs and it would be a lot of hassle to unplumb the computer and move it downstairs for one film. Wondering what options exist to convert this somehow so it can be burnt to a 25GB bluray?

Still, overjoyed to have this edition, and the efforts by everyone concerned that made this release possible. This is THE version of Empire I'll keep returning to now, all LD transfers are now part of the past for me now. This version and Harmy's are all I need until the official OOT is released. Even then this 35mm Grindhouse version is way more representative of what I saw back in 1980 in our local fleapit of a cinema ;)