I know, it's just that it didn't occur to me how funny it is that it took seven whole years to get the movies on dvd at all, but it only took two more years for LFL to cave and release the original versions, even if they were just laserdisc quality.

Back in '95, I saw it as a simple cash grab similar to how disney would always do a "get it before we throw it back in the vault" release. I still think that's all it was, even in spite of the SE. The whole non-anamorphic bidniss was just GL exploiting the situation with dvd. Hi-def will be a whole 'nother ballpark.

Getting back to the Maltin interviews, I only recall GL mentioning the (then forthcoming) SE once throughout the entire thing. It was during the Jedi segment when he says "oh, we're actually putting Jabba back into ANH." So, was the SE common knowledge among any of you back in '95? I, for one, was fairly surprised to hear about it in November of '96.