Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
Still people who don't understand what Anamorphic means are not extremists, if anything they are lazy.

You guys have had Lucas all figured out for years now, and yet we still buy every version he puts out.

I hope you guys are right about Lucas just trying to get us to buy all the versions, because it would really suck if this was the last chance ("no really this time I -really- mean it"), and we missed it -again-.

It's sorta like the sheep that cried wolf. What if it actually WAS the truth this time around?

I'm actually thying hard NOT to buy this release, hoping for an anamorphic widescreen restored version that I feel is worth the € 19,95 a movie they're charging for this re-release of the 2004 SE. And back then they told us this would be the only version of the Star Wars Original Trilogy that would ever see the light of day. Now we know this was a lie. But do we dare to call their bluff?

I decided to follow a different route. Our local library also rents movies. They have the 2004 SE on DVD.
I know the guy who is responsible for maintaining and enhancing their catalogue prety well and I've urged them to consider the purchase of this new release, because "it has the original theatrical version on a second disc". And I added that it is "their duty to make these historic original theatrical versions available to the public".
I sure hope he will actually add them to the catalogue. I for one will rent them and make a copy for home use (I'm allowed to, I have the original on VHS too).

In the mean time I'll be searhing the web for DVD-Rips of all discs two of the newly released set...
Victor Peters