Like the movie edition of Macross Frontier, movie edition of Macross Delta has managed to cut off the unnecessary part of story and streamlined a clumsy 2 season anime into a 2hr-ish movie. What it does is keep the good part of story, highlight and focus on those parts, then pretty much remake all the Valkyrie (mecha) battle scenes on par with at least those of Macross Frontier level (of which the TV version of Macross Delta never be able to do so) And then of course put almost a whole album volume of new music while keeping some of the best from the TV in themovie.

My recommendation for those never into Macross Delta is that just watch the movie and ignore the TV edition, you will get more entertainment in the movie than from the TV edition.