Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
I said yes because I do believe that Fox will force Lucas to do a good transfer of the OOT on there, or they won't release it. If the 9.12 release doesn't sell, Lucas will see it as people don't want the OOT, but Fox will see it as Lucas being an idiot, and will make him do the anamorphic transfers. I think we can expect nice looking OOT in 2007. In which case, I gladly get the set.
I'm already curious to see the Star Wars 4.0 on the new DVD's, and the bonus material. But I just don't the prequel trilogy again, which is why I almost wouldn't buy the set even if it had good versions of the OOT. Just kidding, I'd still get it, sell my prequel DVD's I currently own, and just keep the new ones in the set, maybe watched once or twice.
The DVDs are already selling well, and they're not out yet. It just a case of Lucas's ego vs. his desire to make money.
I think this whole "bonus material" crap is a test, and the way Lynne Hale's response is so carefully worded ("The 1993 Laserdisc masters represented the best source for providing the original versions as DVD bonus material"), leads me to believe that they will have new transfers done of the OOT as non-bonus material .
I said yes because I do believe that Fox will force Lucas to do a good transfer of the OOT on there, or they won't release it. If the 9.12 release doesn't sell, Lucas will see it as people don't want the OOT, but Fox will see it as Lucas being an idiot, and will make him do the anamorphic transfers. I think we can expect nice looking OOT in 2007. In which case, I gladly get the set.
I'm already curious to see the Star Wars 4.0 on the new DVD's, and the bonus material. But I just don't the prequel trilogy again, which is why I almost wouldn't buy the set even if it had good versions of the OOT. Just kidding, I'd still get it, sell my prequel DVD's I currently own, and just keep the new ones in the set, maybe watched once or twice.
The DVDs are already selling well, and they're not out yet. It just a case of Lucas's ego vs. his desire to make money.
I think this whole "bonus material" crap is a test, and the way Lynne Hale's response is so carefully worded ("The 1993 Laserdisc masters represented the best source for providing the original versions as DVD bonus material"), leads me to believe that they will have new transfers done of the OOT as non-bonus material .
What I'm wondering is why LFL kept banging on about a restoration. All that people were asking for were anmorphic discs. Of course, if the transfer hadn't quite been up to scratch, I'd have been unhappy, but I'd have still bought it and not boycotted future Lucasfilm products. We now want the restoration after they've mentioned it
. I've never understood why they don't just restore the OOT, transfer it, then make a dupe and ad the SE stuff to that print and transfer that. Then everyboy would be happy. This all really makes sense; test the waters with a cheap release if you're not sure there's a market right before the big boxed set comes out, then do it for the boxed set to make people buy it again, etc. But I just don't know if logic can apply to LFL. They need some vulcans.