Originally posted by: ESHBG

CO: By the way, conversations like this is why I love this site.

I agree, and this is why I love coming here!

Btw, does anyone know if/when rental stores will be carrying these DVDs?

Probably not. They'll be sticking with the 2004 sets.

And CO, I love coming here and reading your posts. You hit the nail on the head most of the time.

You also made a point about now people can choose which version to like. Most people on this board are thinking that now that casual fans can choose between a non anamorphic, old looking transfer and a sparkly new one, people will chosoe the special edition. Well, that's not the case. Last May, when these DVD's were announced, I'd never seen nor cared about the OOT. I'd gotten the 2004 set as a birthday present from one of my family's best friends, and I was more than thrilled. I didn't know the difference. But when I saw this announcement, and started looking around the web, I got to original trilogy.com, and saw the 70,000 signatures of the petition. I soon ordered a bootleg DVD set off eBay, and I fell in love with the unaltured trilogy. It was that quick. And my bootlegs looked bad. Really bad. But I chose them over the 2004 remastered versions.

That has to say something. That has to say that there are other people out there who will do the same. I was a casual fan. I was a casual fan because I'd never seen the real movies. But look at me now, advocating for the OOT and bashing Lucas with the rest of you here on this board.

I'm young. Younger than all of you, probably. But I chose outdated effects over CGI (though I consider older effects to be better than CGI any day) unlike my peers who thought the PT was cool because of animated Yoda.

Maybe I'm just weird. But I hope to hell that I'm not.