Where the heck is he getting that 20 years figure from? We still had our VHS and Laserdisc OT versions of recent vintage back in 1997.
Didn’t the ad campaign for the last VHS / LD release state it would be the last home media release of the original versions?
I don’t believe anyone took that proclamation seriously at the time. Personally, I thought it was just a sales gimmick.
The SW Laserdisc had this sticker, ESB and ROTJ did not…
Not sure about the VHS release.
Disney had already overused this sort of thing by that time. I wish I still had the ad copy saying Snow White would only ever be released on home video once.