Sadly I agree with CO. It's gotten to the point where I would boycot the set in favour of the OOT, but I know that I'm an exception here. And even then, I would say there is a decent chance I would break and buy the damn thing anyway. I did with the GOUT.

I doubt it will be that expensive. It will probably be under $100, probably in the $89 range. They have to make it buyable for kids and parents, one of their main markets. No Blu Ray set is over $100 except the Complete Series mega-sets with 30-disks of content. For $89, people would pay for the OT SE in Blu Ray, plus deleted scenes, new documentaries, everything from the previous set, and the PT included with new PT bonus features. They don't need the OOT. People will be ticked off, they might even actively complain, but they will still buy the thing.

It might not even be a matter of choice. Maybe the LFL people won't be able to topple the immoveable wall of Lucas, and will be forced to exclude it. We'll have to see.

We should really start a letter writing campaign. The set is in the early stages of being developed if its release date of 4th quarter 2011 is correct. They could ready a remastered OOT as late as spring 2011. If we don't act now, the window might pass.

Non sales, unfortunately, are sometimes racked-up as "disinterest" as opposed to "want something better/different".  Kind of sad that they used the lack of sales of the GOUT to claim that no one would buy the O-OT in any form.

That is way too expensive for something we already have.

But is it unethical?

Baronlando said:

zombie84 said:

I doubt it will be that expensive. It will probably be under $100, probably in the $89 range.

I dunno, it costs 80 bucks just to buy both of those crappy red/blue trilogy boxes at best buy right now.

That's because those are specialty niche titles. Like how Criterion charges $50 for a 2-disk DVD. I paid $90 for a 4-disk Ingmar Bergman set in 2003. The most popular franchise of all time won't cost that much. Blu Ray now is about what DVD was in 2003, so if a Saga boxset came out then I doubt it would have been more than 80 or 90 dollars. Godfather Blu Ray set is about $50, Matrix 4-film set is about $80, so is LOTR Blue-ray, and that's hitting the roof of what people will shell out for. We'll see how the Alien Anthology prices--6 films, at least 13 disks of material, and produced by FOX, comparable to the SW set. I'd be surprised if it was north of $90 though when it starts selling. And by the time the SW set hits, it will likely be 2011, when prices have gone down even more. But whatever. Even if its $120, they won't need the OOT to make it the fastest selling set in the format's history. It's more about PR. But Lucasfilm can afford to have bad PR because it doesn't impact sales, its more about whether the people in charge are comfortable with this.

I'm fixin' to think about pirating it.  Can I do that?

zombie84 said:

 

... But Lucasfilm can afford to have bad PR because it doesn't impact sales, its more about whether the people in charge are comfortable with this.

 Hello new signature!

George could have easily persuaded my decision to switch to Blu Ray. He still can. But to destroy my last comment I revise it by saying this:

I will not purchase it until somebody gives me the big scoop on it. That means I am going to go on Amazon.com which is full of Lucas bashers to see if it is worth pulling out a chunk of change for. I stated my above comments because I own 2 box sets with the same crap on DVD, and I will not waste the my money on the same disappointment. I don't care if it is IMAX quality. Star Wars isn't blue and it should never be Blue.

Remember when zombie84 reported on his site that the 2004 versions were only done in a resolution of 1080P.  Not exactly blu ray reference quality. 

Not sure Lucas will get away with it, but he probably will if you use the example of warner's and lord of the rings, or gladiator, and paramount with star trek 1-6.

For most people good enough is better than nothing.

Funny thing about those releases they all included the theatrical versions, which won't happen here.

skyjedi2005 said:

Remember when zombie84 reported on his site that the 2004 versions were only done in a resolution of 1080P.  Not exactly blu ray reference quality. 

 This doesn't cut it for a theatrical release, but it shouldn't make a difference on Blu Ray.

Problem is, Lucas has basically made the Blu Ray resolution the negative, which is downright retarded. Even if he re-scanned the footage in 4k or 8k, all the additions done for the 2004 SE would be in 1080 because they were done on a 1080 negative and you will never change that. I realize the additions are few, but this means that even if they re-scanned the film in 8K for a theatrical showing, the prison cell shootout scene, the binary sunset shots, certain Mos Eisley shots, the Jabba scene, the Greedo shooting scene, certain shots from Ben's duel, the scene where Darth Vader meets the Emperor, the scene of Vader's unmasking, and the shots of the three Jedi ghosts--these will always be 1080 lines of resolution. Plus, every SE enhancement from 1997 will be in 2000 lines of resolution. How much footage does that amount for in ANH? Like 25% of the movie? So unless Lucas completely redoes the SE--which will never happen--the "definitive" version of the movie will always have a quarter of it in 1K/2K, even if being projected at 8K. Which is a little sad. 2K I could handle, because that's sort of the same degradation as optical compositing, but 1080? Ugh. Going to be interesting to see how theatrical screenings hold up.