"you call the OOT being designated as "special features" as an official release?"
Well, no matter how you put it, it WAS a release of the OOT, no matter how substandard, and no matter how you put it, it WAS official. So yes, there was an official release. No matter how much you or I wish that pathetic release away, the fact remains that it still happened. So yes, just for the sake of calling things as they are, I do designate the "special feature" as an official release. As I mentioned in my last post, in some ways that "special feature" is a good thing. If you remember, George once said that the OOT no longer existed, I consider it no small step that several years after he made that comment, the thing he said no longer existed wound up as a special feature, an admitance that it no longer no longer exists. Or to translate the double negative, it once again exists. I don't see it as too much of a stretch for it to once again be included as a "special feature" one day in HD. Either way, even if we never get another release again, I wouldn't consider it as one of life's "category 5" hurricanes". I have had hurricanes in life, and in the grand scheme of things, being stuck with old VHS tapes and bootleg LD transfers of the OUT isn't one of them.