CO said:
To sorta sum up my post, if the '04 DVD's didn't sell well, can we all agree that the OOT would have been remastered for a nice boxset a year or two after that, cause Lucas would have gotten the memo that nobody wants the SE, they want the originals. But the OT is so powerful, the majority of people will 'put up' with the SE just to have them on DVD. I can't tell ya how many of my friends bough the 04 Boxset and said, "Yeah, the SE changes annoy me, but its SW!"
To sorta sum up my post, if the '04 DVD's didn't sell well, can we all agree that the OOT would have been remastered for a nice boxset a year or two after that, cause Lucas would have gotten the memo that nobody wants the SE, they want the originals. But the OT is so powerful, the majority of people will 'put up' with the SE just to have them on DVD. I can't tell ya how many of my friends bough the 04 Boxset and said, "Yeah, the SE changes annoy me, but its SW!"
Well, yea, except that's the thing. Why wouldn't the '04 set have sold as well????? I mean, it was Star Wars on dvd finally. The new formats were still a couple years away and Lucas saw 2004 as the perfect time to do it, not a year later. With blu-ray it'll be a different situation. The ball is no longer in Lucas' court. Maybe I'm reading too much into the Close Encounters release from last year, but the fact that it happened when it did (only a year or so into the new format) and the way it did (all 3 versions) kinda gives me hope that each of the original movies will get one disc for the SE and one disc for the original version.
The 2004 set sold so fucking well because dvd is everyone's favorite format. What I was trying to say is that they did such a good job mastering it that for a lot of people out there it'll probably be the last time they ever buy the movies on home video. With blu-ray, as we've said many times, Lucas can charge us whatever he wants within a reasonable limit and, guess what, we'll still buy it as long as it has the remastered OOT included. That's what we just have to remember. At the end of the day, he knows we'll shell out a little extra money if the set has what we really want in it. If economics dictate to him that it still wouldn't be worth it, well, then so be it. But that's just not what I see happening.
Now, I realize this brings us back yet again to the argument of "well, he's not going to because he knows he can get away with only selling the SE." But that's what I'm talking about here. I can only see his including the OOT as helping any future release, not hurting it.