we will not know the status of the saga 6 film boxset until the format wars between HD-DVD and blu ray die down a bit.
That's a false assumption. Even WITHOUT the battle between Blu-Ray and HD (and it's not even much of a battle anymore) being decided, this set is STILL going to come out on DVD. There are too many DVD players for it NOT to. There's no way he makes a huge all-inclusive box set and doesn't port it over to the format that has THE MOST installed units in the home. This (still a theoretical) set would make a significant amount of it's cash from regular DVD sales, not blu-ray.