Originally posted by: Kaal-Jhyy
Ok, but there's one important thing you don't understand.
Star Wars is Lucas' creation, and for him, every new "enhanced" version is some sort of update, not an alternate version. From his point of view, it's normal that he doesn't want to release the O-OT on DVD.
But don't misunderstand me, I'd love to have the O-OT on an official DVD too!
And you're claiming that Lucas considers Star Wars a commercial product and "he fully depended on the commercial momentum the OT still had". If it was the case, don't you think that he would already have released every movie in several versions (I'm talking about DVDs)? From a purely commercial point of view, it would be very fructuous to release the original versions of the movies (including TPM and AOTC), as well as the "final" versions, and maybe the OT SE. In this case, many fans would have bough 2 or 3 different versions of the same movies -> pretty commercial, isn't it?
Ok, but there's one important thing you don't understand.
Star Wars is Lucas' creation, and for him, every new "enhanced" version is some sort of update, not an alternate version. From his point of view, it's normal that he doesn't want to release the O-OT on DVD.
But don't misunderstand me, I'd love to have the O-OT on an official DVD too!
And you're claiming that Lucas considers Star Wars a commercial product and "he fully depended on the commercial momentum the OT still had". If it was the case, don't you think that he would already have released every movie in several versions (I'm talking about DVDs)? From a purely commercial point of view, it would be very fructuous to release the original versions of the movies (including TPM and AOTC), as well as the "final" versions, and maybe the OT SE. In this case, many fans would have bough 2 or 3 different versions of the same movies -> pretty commercial, isn't it?
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There are two ways of looking at Lucas not releasing the O-OT on DVD:
1. He is totally flipped his lid, and will keep making changes upon changes in every new release and it is to the point of being laughable.
2. He is making the public wait for the O-OT on purpose, if we got a seamless branching DVD in 2004 with SE & O-OT, they would be no demand for them anymore. Alot of older fans would be done with buying SW. But if Lucas releases the 6 box set in 2007 this time with all 6 movies, and then a seamless branching O-OT with it, then he could milk everyone of us who don't love the PT to buy this huge box set where we only like half the movies. So anyone who bought the 2004 SE will definitely have to rebuy the O-OT.
Either Lucas is genius if he does this, or he is gone totally bonkers and doesn't care. We'll wait and see........