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Yeah, I ended up keeping the MKVs as were and removing the foreign audio support with MakeMKV - such a useful and lightweight app. I love MKVs, in fact I never knew much about them until the despecialized stuff; them being containers and simply re-arranging stuff around when you rip BDs. So good.

ALSO: I forced my mates to watch the 2011 and despecialized of SW back to back with me and they couldn't tell which one was the official release as per quality, transfer, remastering etc. They don't know (or care) much about the changes so it was a good test to gauge purely the visual grade of v2.5. /GG

Thanks Erik for the detailed response; I don't think the merge is necessary as I got it to work dumping it directly into TM. However, this might be a reflection of my blu-ray player, which is pretty lenient when it comes to BD. 

Thanks Harmy, I might hold off from further burns until ROTJ or a fully fledged SW BD release. The versions look exceptional on my HTPC. XOXO

Actually, this makes a whole lot of sense given the audio was the first difference I noticed on the AVCHD. Thanks for the fast reply. Much appreciated!

Truly breathtaking work on this, mate! Always negged on fan restorations until v2.5, so infinite thanks go to you and your counterparts. My loyalty to nostalgic antecedents utterly outstrips the exceptional (yet creatively tarnished) remastered quality of the SW blu-rays. This is the only SW, ALL OTHER VERSIONS ARE DEAD TO ME!

QUERY 1:
Just want to ask why there exists a duration differential of ~00:00:05 between the MKV (02:01:50) and AVCHD (02:01:45) releases? (I loved watching it on my comp so transferring it to a home cinema viewing is definitely stage 2.) Anyway, is this something to do with timings affected by compression to get it down to a DVD9 containable size? I'm pretty sure that's not the case but I thought I'd ask.

QUERY 2:
Is there any upside to directly muxing the 17.8gb MKV to BD ISO and putting the resulting directory on a blank BD rather than getting the reduced AVCHD for DVD? The drop in size from 18gb to 8gb seems intense but I have little esoteric knowledge in this area so I thought I'd ask. (Is it similar to the audiophile argument between FLAC and 320kbps when most find no discernible difference etc?)