Says you.
Mature.
Fox owns the rights, but it’s not as simple as that, and I have no idea why everyone on these forums seems to think Fox can just jump up and say “Yes! It’s time to distribute the OOT on 4K!” anytime they want.
There’s a lot of legal hoops they need to jump through with Disney and Lucasfilm. The digital releases were missing the 20th Century Fox logo or is everyone forgetting that? Oh right but it’s clearly as simple as Fox just deciding to do whatever they want, they must have decided to omit their logo from the beginning of those releases just because they felt like it.For the record Fox retains distribution rights for the original Star Wars, it does not own all the prints for the original Star Wars or the right to scan and/or alter anything without the approval of Lucasfilm and by extension, Disney.
Conflicts of interest and contractual legalities are enough to throw a huge wrench in the works for anything like this. Shutting down discussion that doesn’t align with the hivemind doesn’t change that.
I want a 4K release just as much as anyone but expecting one this year or anytime soon is lunacy and I’ll eat my hat if it happens. Feel free to hold me to that.
I never said Fox can just release it when they want. I was just saying ANH will be distributed through into the foreseeable future provided of course Lucasfilm wants them too. Lucasfilm is really the ones in charge of where the movies are going.
As far as the OOT never being released, I don’t think it’ll be this year but in the future who knows?? Studios always want excuses to resell their shit and simply giving out the same SE everytime is gonna get to a point where that’s not enough of a selling point. But if you are positively, absolutely, truly, undoubtedly, with out a doubt, no second thoughts whatsoever, totally convinced it will never happen well more power to you. But let those who are still holding out hope to their business and dreams, as potentially hopeless as they may be.
I would argue it’s already gotten to that point.
They’ve sold us the same discs three times in a row now.