Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
Exactly. However....there's another catch. Lucas is supposedly doing this as an experiment to find out which version people prefer. However, as any fifth grade science teacher will tell you, when you set up an experiment, there are some rules that must be followed, like having the experiment be fare. If you want to find out what food a frog prefers, you give it two different foods at different times. You don't just shove them down its throat at the same time.
If you didn't get my metaphor, to have a fair experiment, Lucas would have to package the OOT and the 2004SE seperately to see which sells better.
So, back to my starting point, catch number two is, even if this set sells better than any DVD ever sold, Lucas will just take it as people just wanted the 2004 edition again, only with new packaging and a second disk.
(That's why sending back SE discs is a good idea.)
Originally posted by: Mike O
And therein lies the catch 22.
Originally posted by: Jobel
Of course if people don't buy them, Lucas will just take that as an indication that nobody wants the OT.
Of course if people don't buy them, Lucas will just take that as an indication that nobody wants the OT.
And therein lies the catch 22.
Exactly. However....there's another catch. Lucas is supposedly doing this as an experiment to find out which version people prefer. However, as any fifth grade science teacher will tell you, when you set up an experiment, there are some rules that must be followed, like having the experiment be fare. If you want to find out what food a frog prefers, you give it two different foods at different times. You don't just shove them down its throat at the same time.
If you didn't get my metaphor, to have a fair experiment, Lucas would have to package the OOT and the 2004SE seperately to see which sells better.
So, back to my starting point, catch number two is, even if this set sells better than any DVD ever sold, Lucas will just take it as people just wanted the 2004 edition again, only with new packaging and a second disk.
(That's why sending back SE discs is a good idea.)
There is a whole Thread about sending back the SEs. I wonder, if a good number of people do it, how Lucas will react, and what message it will send. See the thing is, Lucas will of course know why they did not sell well if they do not. But he will still have a valid excuse for not releasing the OOT again. That is, of course, if this release doesn't sell well. I ran into a pair of people at Blockbuster the other day who grew up with the OOT and were none too thrilled at the SEs. I'm wondering how much of the general population, people who do not know or care about the non-anamorphic issue, will buy these DVDs. If they do sell well, then one of several thing could happen. Lucas could say that now people have what he considers to be an inferior version and he never needs to release it again. Or, God willing, he will see that there is a market for it and contact Robert A. Harris. If restored versions of the OOT are included on the 30th anniversary boxed set, I would buy it without a moment's hesitation, unless it got horrendous reviews. So that I can sleep at night
, I tell myself that LFL is releaseing these to test the waters (which I discussed in the afforementioned thread) to see if they should include a better version of the OOT in the upcoming boxed set. I doubt it, of course, but its something to hope for. A remastered OOT=more sales. If it is included in the boxed set, which will of course be high-priced, Lucas knows that people like me would pay through the nose to get it. But whoever said that LFL think logically, especially when it comes to the OOT?