thecolorsblend2 said:
I realize I'm a day late and a buck short on this discussion, but here goes.
Some people might but I think the majority of people (ie, Joe Sixpack) would not care which version they get.
Even so, given George's comments on the matter, I wouldn't by any means rule out an eventual real release of the trilogy. When? Your guess is as good as anybody's. If it were coming this year (a stupid choice with the 30th being last year and Indy 4 this year), we would've heard by now, I'd imagine.
As for HD, I can only see a Blu-Ray SE release happening in the next two years if the OOT is included. Lucas, rather obviously, doesn't have faith in the format so I'd imagine he'd want to package in the OOT as "extras" again to make the Blu-Ray thing a killer-app.
If the release happens beyond that window, when Blu-Ray's more established (and until Joe Sixpack has one, it's just a niche), which I estimate to be about two years away, then there'd be no incentive to include the OOT to spike up sales since the format would then be the growing market standard. Sales are assured anyway, right, so why bother?
Incidentally, George's remark about "it'll all come out in the end" was about learning whether people prefer the SE vs. the OOT. Ergo what I think he meant was "the truth will come out". I'd love to be wrong though.
I realize I'm a day late and a buck short on this discussion, but here goes.
But the OT is so powerful, the majority of people will 'put up' with the SE just to have them on DVD
Some people might but I think the majority of people (ie, Joe Sixpack) would not care which version they get.
Even so, given George's comments on the matter, I wouldn't by any means rule out an eventual real release of the trilogy. When? Your guess is as good as anybody's. If it were coming this year (a stupid choice with the 30th being last year and Indy 4 this year), we would've heard by now, I'd imagine.
As for HD, I can only see a Blu-Ray SE release happening in the next two years if the OOT is included. Lucas, rather obviously, doesn't have faith in the format so I'd imagine he'd want to package in the OOT as "extras" again to make the Blu-Ray thing a killer-app.
If the release happens beyond that window, when Blu-Ray's more established (and until Joe Sixpack has one, it's just a niche), which I estimate to be about two years away, then there'd be no incentive to include the OOT to spike up sales since the format would then be the growing market standard. Sales are assured anyway, right, so why bother?
Incidentally, George's remark about "it'll all come out in the end" was about learning whether people prefer the SE vs. the OOT. Ergo what I think he meant was "the truth will come out". I'd love to be wrong though.
I can't imagine it's more than a couple years away. The 3D re-releases will probably be 2010 because they've been working on them for a while now and how much longer are they just going to sit on them? There isn't really much of an anniversary to tie it in to, so I'd think they would use the 3D release to promote the upcoming live action show in some way. Then, in the fall, the blu-ray hits.
But as for this argument that a 1080p SE will be good enough for most people, well, it won't be good enough for me. I don't care how much detail there is, it's not the version I want. I'm also continuing to disagree with you guys that it'll sell like hotcakes. I'm starting to wonder if that would be true even if he did throw in the OOT. He'll need to do that just so he can get as many people as possible to buy it, 'cause I don't think he's going to wait another five years like he did with dvd. None of what I'm saying really matters at the end of the day because, guess what, they haven't commented on a damn thing regarding the OOT since '06. We don't have the slightest clue what they're up to.
All I'm really trying to say is that I don't think Lucas' ego is that big. Can we all agree that the GOUT resulted from a lack of willingness to spend money, not some incredible issue of pride? Maybe he's just waiting until the blu-ray to remaster it.
Look at it this way:
People, a good number of them anyway, are going to want the OOT in hi-def. For that reason, it would be worth Lucas' while to do some sort of rudimentary restoring/remastering of the OOT and include it in the packaging. The fact that he's lowering it to being "bonus material" doesn't necessarily preclude him from giving it to us in 1080p, even if it doesn't get a meticulous frame by frame job like Lowry did with the SE.