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**It has happened, Original films on DVD!!**

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For a limited time aledgedly...
They are being released on 11/9/2006 but only for a few months. Each film comes with 2 dvds, one of the original theatrical version and one with the enhanced version.
HMV has been the cheapest place I have found so far.
for the UK anyway...

http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=527041

I am dubious as to the reality of this being a strictly limited thing but whos gonna take the chance??

Liam
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Holy poodoo! Who could've seen this coming?!?
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For as much as some people claim to hate what Star Wars has become, they sure seem incapable of shutting up about it.
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"I bet you went up to Mrs. Lincoln at the Ford Theatre and said "How was the show? Did I miss anything?"
--Hudson Hawk
I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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Waking up from a coma is pretty cool, huh?
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So, I hear "Episode III" is coming out soon... anyone know the title yet? Is it really going to be "The Creeping Fear"?
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DVDs you say?
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"I am altering the movies. Pray I don't alter them any further." -Darth Lucas
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Wow!! I'm definitely getting these!! Does anybody know what sort of transfer it will be? Will they be remastered? Will it be anamorphic?

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I hear that they're going to use the original theatric prints and do a painstaking frame-by-frame remastering! This is gunna be awesome! I can't wait! Thanks for notifying me, Sir States-The-Obvious-Alot.
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Damn you poms pay heaps for your DVDs.

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Originally posted by: VelvetKloud
For a limited time aledgedly...
They are being released on 11/9/2006 but only for a few months. Each film comes with 2 dvds, one of the original theatrical version and one with the enhanced version.
HMV has been the cheapest place I have found so far.
for the UK anyway...

http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=527041

I am dubious as to the reality of this being a strictly limited thing but whos gonna take the chance??

Liam


LOL! you remind me those japanese soldiers who didn't know the war was over !

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Haha, that's enough guys. We don't want to hurt his feelings. I'm sure everybody's done it once. But, yeah, that news actually broke close to two months ago, so we already know.

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Hey Velvet, it's much cooler to have NOT known, so good for you.
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That "o rly" owl follows me everywhere......

VelvetKloud, check out these threads. They'll give you all the info you need about the upcoming DVD releases (you'll have to copy and paste them):

http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=2&threadid=5453

http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=2&threadid=5688

http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=2&threadid=5355

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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
"I bet you went up to Mrs. Lincoln at the Ford Theatre and said "How was the show? Did I miss anything?"
--Hudson Hawk

One of my Fav movies. I watched it just the other day.

This post reminded me of my excitement when I heard the Original unaltered trilogy was coming out on dvd before GL crushed my dreams by not making them anamorphic.
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Originally posted by: SephirothTNH
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
"I bet you went up to Mrs. Lincoln at the Ford Theatre and said "How was the show? Did I miss anything?"
--Hudson Hawk

One of my Fav movies. I watched it just the other day.

The man knows! The man knows!!!
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Originally posted by: SephirothTNH
This post reminded me of my excitement when I heard the Original unaltered trilogy was coming out on dvd before GL crushed my dreams by not making them anamorphic.
Hey, look on the bright side- at least the Corvette Summer DVD is anamorphic!!
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Haha, that's enough guys. We don't want to hurt his feelings. I'm sure everybody's done it once. But, yeah, that news actually broke close to two months ago, so we already know.

I guess I'm behind, too- I just found out last week when my copy of Star Wars Insider came in the mail. LOL

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"I bet you went up to Mrs. Lincoln at the Ford Theatre and said "How was the show? Did I miss anything?"


LOL...I love that film, too.

"So, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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It's a shame so many people hated that film. But hey we still got a dvd release of it... and in anamorphic wide screen too. (jab at LFL intended)
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Radioland murders will be out soon in anamorphic as well...*sigh*

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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-sigh- I hate to say this, but this is the best we will EVER get on DVD for the OOT. Yes, it's letterbox, a virtually unused technique for presenting widescreen fims since 2000, and Lucas has won. Tampering can be made to make it somewhat anamorphic, but in six months time Lucas will be victorious in his decade-long destruction of a beloved trilogy. SW has become Disneyland now-a work that is never finished. Sure after Lucas kicks the bucket his successors will definitely want to keep Lucas' intentions alive and we'll get the Stalinist censorship and reenvisioning claiming to be his intent back in the 70s. I know I said I would avoid the DVDs like the plauge, but VHS will fall apart after ten years, but at least DVD last 5 times longer than VHS and by then it can be a tempelate to keep it in substandard conditions for every future video format to eternity. It just proof of the death of something we loved.
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Originally posted by: generalfrevious
-sigh- I hate to say this, but this is the best we will EVER get on DVD for the OOT.

I don't know about that..... I see this upcoming DVD release as a sign that Lucas is beginning to soften a bit. I really do think he's testing the waters, to see if those of us who've been screaming for the OOT, are willing to put our money where our mouths are. It could be that he's so insulated, that he really doesn't think that there are that many of us who actually want the OT, and thinks that most Star Wars fans feel the same way about the SE that he does.

If these DVDs sell big-time, I think it will be an eye-opener for him. He may decide to give the OOT a hi-def release in the future. Normally, I wouldn't be this optimistic- but the fact that the OOT is coming out on DVD at all is a BIG shocker for me- I never thought I'd see it happen, especially with the disdain that GL has shown for them.

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mielr, I too was shocked that the OOT was coming out two monts ago, but I think Lucas is only doing this to stop the bootleg market. It's just like when he wished the SW holiday sepcail destroyed-he repeating himself by giving us a shoddy product.

In other words, Lucas doesnt care about the OOT, PERIOD!