I’ve reconstructed the longer cut of Far and Away using the blu-ray wherever possible and the TV footage where necessary. The aspect ratio shifts from 2.39:1 to 1.33:1 for extra scenes (with a constant image height). I’ve retained the 5.1 audio from the blu-ray as well, so it shifts from 5.1 to 2.0 during the TV footage. Right now I have a 16.2GB file with LPCM 5.1 audio. I’m going to share this on the spleen. I can save some of that file size by encoding the audio to DTS-HD MA 5.1 instead if that is preferred, but I didn’t want to limit the release to people who can playback DTS-HD MA 5.1 tracks. Is there a preference for the LPCM 5.1 audio or the DTS-HD MA 5.1?

PS: The running time is 169 mins, 21 secs (there was a recap of Part I on the second night along with a second round of opening credits which I believe accounts for the extra couple of minutes, and this was obviously excised for my continuous cut).