Luca$hFilm consistently milks the Star Wars movies for all they are worth and they are not above lying to create buying frenzies. Saying that they will not release the OOT again is a lie. They know there is a market for it and they are led by the market.
Luca$h is not an artist slaving over his 'vision', he is a businessman who has one really popular product and will repackage and rerelease it as often as is possible in order for it to generate the maximum amount of profit it will support.
Just look at his proposed rerelease of the PT and SEs in 3D! Are we supposed to think that that was his 'original vision' in 1976?! Bollocks! It's just yet another repackaging, designed to generate more money from the same product. Will it make the movies better? No. Will the 3D imagery distract people from the poor storytelling? Well, since Luca$h seems to have decided to target his franchise at pre-teens, then I'm afraid it probably will.
The Disney reference is spot on. It infuriates me the way they keep withdrawing their DVDs, particularly classics like 'The Jungle Book', and then rereleasing them a few months or years down the line. Luca$hFilm clearly want a piece of that action. If they keep withdrawing the films and then rereleasing them it should mean that the sales never peak. There will always be demand.
BASTARDS!!!