SilverWook said:
The other problem was Disney had run the "Last chance to own this movie on video forever!" gimmick into the ground already, so any cynical consumer would take Lucasfilm's marketing with a big block of salt. ;)

See, that is exactly why I am surprised some people realized that the intention was to give the originals the boot (heh, but not without milking one last drop of blood from them first!) I seriously took it to be hyperbolic marketing exactly like Disney's. Oops.