AxiaEuxine said:
You know that Lucas will eventually release the OOT. You all know that right?

I don't. Take a look at this quote from Lucas on the SE:

"There will only be one. And it won't be what I would call the 'rough cut,' it'll be the 'final cut.' The other one will be some sort of interesting artifact that people will look at and say, 'There was an earlier draft of this.' The same thing happens with plays and earlier drafts of books. In essence, films never get finished, they get abandoned. At some point, you're dragged off the picture kicking and screaming while somebody says, 'Okay, it's done.' That isn't really the way it should work. Occasionally, [you can] go back and get your cut of the video out there, which I did on both American Graffiti and THX-1138; that's the place where it will live forever. So what ends up being important in my mind is what the DVD version is going to look like, because that's what everybody is going to remember. The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won't last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version, and you'll be able to project it on a 20' by 40' screen with perfect quality. I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's to go back and reinvent a movie." (When he says "dvd version", he means of the SE)

If that's his view, I don't think he'll want the OOT to be around on blu-ray and future formats. Particularly considering he'll have to put in money and effort to restore them for that. I think it's clear that he wants the movies so many of us love to be gone and gone for good.

Of course, I consider that quote to be a gloating declaration of war on the fans.