The only possible excuse I could see LFL coming up with is "well, since we know that everyone on the planet is going to want to a buy a copy, we couldn't possibly mass produce the discs without it just being one movie, one disc."

But that's my whole point. Look at what happened. Yes, everyone went out and bought the '04 set, but people made it clear to LFL in various ways that they didn't necessarily want to be required to buy all three movies if they only wanted one. Certain people, ahem, also made it clear that they wanted the original versions on dvd. So, LFL took care of both in one swoop. No, it wasn't remastered, but it was a step in the right direction.

I don't see them repeating this mistake on the next go-around. Now, you all laugh and say "Lucas won't see it as a mistake, he'll see it as another easy double-dip." But I still contend that while blu-ray is nice and all that, it won't be what dvd was. Watching the movies in 1080p will not be enough to get us to buy it again, neither will throwing in a bunch of documentaries. Going the Blade Runner route and putting separate versions on separate discs for the OT and going the seamless branching route for TPM is the only way he'll get a lot of people to buy it again. He'll release them individually this time since, from the sound of things, it's going to be one massive six-film set and people aren't going to want to pay 200 dollars for it.

Worst case scenario, even if he doesn't include the original versions in the individual releases, he'll throw them exclusively in the 200 dollar set to get us to buy it. Am I setting myself up for disappointment?

EDIT: ok, upon further thought that second to last paragraph makes me seem a bit naive. Of course it'll sell well if they advertise it enough.

Back in '06 and '07, I was a little confused by why people kept referring to the marketing department at lfl and how they should all be fired. They should be fired for exploiting people's ignorance of how dvd video works? I thought that was their job in regards to the GOUT.

I think what people were basically trying to say is that they should be fired for not giving us what we obviously want. But I think it's obvious enough by now. You can't watch the GOUT on an hdtv without both a) zooming it in and b) repositioning it so you can read the Greedo and Jabba subtitles. But that's not the market LFL was going for, and if you get the movies in fullscreen that's only for the '04 version, you're still getting the '93 version letterboxed.

My point is, blu-ray is a totally different ballpark.