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.
ROTJ did not…
That settles it. The big announcement at Celebration is a theatrical cut BD of Jedi only. Hence the "surprise