Unaltered STAR WARS TRILOGY on DVD

The sound you hear is actually the giant sucking sound of Lucas draining fanboy wallets yet again.

I knew that Lucas would pull this stunt - release the tinkered-with orginal Trilogy first, stating that the unaltered versions would never again be released (that was the statement when he issued them on VHS for one last time). Then, once all the fanboys bought up that version, release the originals like he knew we wanted all along.

I'm glad I had the foresight to not buy the altered Trilogy when it first hit DVD.

I didnt buy it either. But thats just because i haven't gotten around to it yet. Now I don't have to. I figured the origanals would be released as a stand alone set but it's nice to see they've decided to relese both versions in one pakage.

And the reason Lucas pushes digital theaters is to push the same stunts in cinemas. Imagine re-releasing the same movie three or four times just by "adding" some scenes and slight different edits, all that without paying for prints.

Or what you can do is take the un-remastered VHS Tapes (if you have them, hisses and all) and easily record them to DVD and throw out the remastered, changed, unoriginal crap that we all bought last year.

I'm almost of the mind that I should just wait for these on Blu-ray or HD-DVD. There's only two things that could possibly stop me though:

1) Who the hell is going to win the format war? I thought Blu-ray had it all locked up but now...? And will consumers even accept this new format? I'm smelling Laserdisc.........

2) Who am I kidding? As much as I bitch about Luca$ pilfering my pockets I continue to buy each edition like a zombie...

In regards to the BluRay/HDDVD war, I think that the hardware end of the home entertainment industry may have jumped the gun. WAAAAY too early. The VCR was the primary technology of choice for twenty years. DVD has only been really going for about five. Maybe with only one improved format to choose it might have worked. But with the general population having easy access to DVD players (saw one at Walmart for $39.00!! I paid over two hundred for mine, four years ago) I can't see a great move towards a new format, much less choose from two (would you want to buy a Beta machine right now?). The new High-Def systems will probably end up like laser dics, and be more of a niche market until the next wave of technology after that.
By-the-way, could the next format have the actual information holding portion of the disc (or whatever) unaccessble to the touch of stupid people. I am sick of renting DVDs to have them skip, stall, go back to the beginning, or crash entirely because some borderline retarded half-wit with a Blockbuster card puts the disc logo side up on a table, or lets their greasy children play CSI fingerprint impression on it.

Sorry. I ranted. Its a pet peeve

Actually, Digital Bits is reporting that these will be on DVD only. Lucas has no plans for HDDVD/Blu-Ray. There is a stong possibility that he could change his mind, but in his Time magazine interview, he really pushes digital downloads as the "real" next gen format.

Man, I lucas is milking what he can. Sadly, I will probly buy this.

I have the original trilogy on VHS in both the remastered and the updated versions, and the updated trilogy on DVD. That's 3 sets.

I won't buy this one. I just watch the updated DVD until Han starts talking to Greedo, pause, switch to the remastered VHS, watch the scene, and then go back.

No fuss, no muss.

synmexico--

Thank you.

HAN SHOT FIRST!