Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
Are you saying that he could have released the DVD with more fixes and changes than he had already gotten to by that point?

No, I'm saying that he could have simply released the movies as they were by that point, and then waited for 2007 to do a big fixed-up thing. We would have likely gotten the 1997 SE anyway, his "definitive" version at the time (i guess only until the next release...and then again until the release after that...). Anyway, I'm pretty happy with the way things turned out though, with the exception of this whole OOT business. Personally the smartest thing to do would have been to release the OT in 2001 with the first prequel DVD, just as a bare-bones disk, because thats pretty much all people wanted at the time, and multi-disk special editions weren't as standard as they are now. Hell, if he released a two-disk DVD with the 97 SE on one disk and the 1993 LD on the second like he did now i think people would have loved it simply because the standards in 2001 were so much more forgiving; and then in 2007 released a massive box set with many disks and features and all his changes, and because people by that point would be craving special editions the set would be a giant seller with even more casual fans, whereas the upcoming 2007 will only be bought by the most die hards of die hards. But i guess hindsight is 20/20. Or probably more accurately the LFL marketing team found a way to sell us the same thing four different times in four years.