Since I highly doubt the unaltered Originals are anywhere on those discs, and I already own Solo and TLJ on UHD, I’m going to skip this boxed set and just buy TRoS and the Originals on UHD separately. I might add R1 and TFA on UHD later.
Also, am I the only person who hates the idea of sliding my discs in and out of cardboard? I hate sets like that.
It depends on how well constructed the set is. I normally would prefer a regular case, but my Alien Anthology and Criterion Godzilla cases are very good. It’s pretty hard to scratch a blu-ray, so I’m not really worried about the discs coming into contact with the waxed/treated surface of the case. But the Bond 50 box-set is sort of annoying because it’s just hard to get the discs in and out.
I also doubt the originals are on those bonus discs, but I’m also wondering about how big those bonus BDs are - if they’re BD-25s or BD-50s. And either way - the bonus discs aren’t exclusive to this set, apparently. So if the originals ARE on those bonus discs, they’d be on the individual releases as well, albeit locked to 1080p.
But then again, you could probably fit a really nice-sized 1080p encode of the originals on a BD-50 with space leftover for a lot of bonus features per-movie. I guess the best-case scenario is that some of these bonus discs haves an alternate 1080p cut of the movie on it. Originals for the OT, Theatrical for TPM, IMAX for AOTC, etc etc. Again, best-case scenario isn’t the same as an at-all LIKELY scenario, but it could still be done.
What if in a year or so they release another boxed set that DOES contain the unaltered versions, and they aren’t available any other way?
Then I guess it’d be back to business as usual in that case? Although come to think of it, the last time Lucasfilm released unaltered versions, they didn’t do that. They stuck them on a bonus disc and made each individual title available without having to buy them all in a set.