When Episode I was announced for home video, George Lucas decided he wasn't going to release it on DVD. He felt that the DVD format lacked (image) quality and wasn't suited for showing his movies. Instead he releases the movie on the far inferior VHS format. This stroke me as odd, to say the least. Some year and a half later he came back on his decision and released Epispode I on DVD.
I just hope that other fans will decide not to buy the announced/rumoured september 2006 re-release of both the OOT and 2004 version. Most likely, less than a year later, I expect that yet another release will be announced to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the 1977 Star Wars movie. Maybe then we will finally get an anamorphic and digitally restored but otherwise unaltered versionn of the OOT. Untill then, I'll just wait and see ...