Originally posted by: generalfrevious

No it won't; it will be only a medium for Lucas to further seal the death of the OOT. And CO, didn't you say yourself a few months ago the hope for the OOT died with the GOUT, and we will be stuck with the GOUT as our only source of seeing the real SW in 2015, when HD has swamped the market?

The difference is that people are not going to rush out to buy HD-DVD the same way they did with DVD. You have to look at DVD, and how it changed the whole home video market. DVD was such an upgrade over VHS, EVERYONE got into the market, and even started buying movies for the first time in their life.

When the OT finally came out in 2004 on DVD, most people were just happy to get it, and they would take ANY edition. I know cause I was one of those fans. HD-DVD or BlueRay is an upgrade over DVD, but not a huge upgrade to the average consumer the way DVD was to VHS, so I believe the average consumer won't be just buying every title that comes out.

What leads me to my point, SW on HD-DVD/BlueRay has to be done right, or a majority of fans won't buy it. Sure there are fans who will buy anything with SW on it, but not as many as Lucas thinks. I was one of those who had to have anything of SW on DVD, but I am not waiting day-by-day for announcement of a BlueRay SW set the same way I was when the OT was announced in Feb 2004. The difference is I am going to wait, and if it is the SE again, then I will take a pass, cause I am not going to spend 60-70 dollars to make a small upgrade of quality of something I don't love, and I think alot of fans will do the same.

I said 2015 more as an exaggeration because of this format war that just isn't ending, so who knows when there will be one format, maybe 2010, maybe 2015, but it sure won't end in 2008, and sadly people like myself will not get into the market until the war is over.