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Lucasfilm DVD announcement: they are NOT the original cuts, they're the Special Editions. — Page 2

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yeah yeah...
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Qui-Gon Jinn (R.I.P.)
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Yes, but next time, try not to sound too enthusiastic, okay? Cut out an exclamation point or two or three...
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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you got it.
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Can't let him get his hopes up too much.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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good to have you here to police us bossk.
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Nah, not policing. Just offering up my two Lincolns.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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yeah yeah... thats how it all starts, before you know its 1984.
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Big Brother is Watching You!!!!
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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my point exactly.
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
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because he can?
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
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One should not just do something simply because one is able to (or everybody else is doing it).

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Well, that would be the logic-based way of looking at it. But who says that logic ever works into GL's mental schemata?
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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GL can screw around with HIS trilogy as much as he wants to.

I made sure I got the original trilogy on DVD from Ebay, as a timesaver instead of making a copy of my own 'widescreen' VHS tapes. Whatever version he decides to release next september, I'm home safe. I might even consider boycotting the official release to send a message. But this all depends on what the version (and further additions) will be when the DVD finally arrives...

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is the DVD version you bought good quality? the subtitles and so on...
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Hi Motti, I was wondering if you got my PM?
The original Star Wars trilogy: Our cultural history deserves to be preserved and should be available to the public like all great works of art!
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i got it...
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The DVD's are actually DVD-recordable (4.7 GB of data). Picture and sound quality is good, thanks to the good source material which was a LaserDisc set of the movie. The movies are presented in letterboxed format, preserving the original aspect ratio of 1 : 2.35. The movies don't have subtitles, except for the parts when the conversation is not in English (e.g. between Gredo and Han Solo in the Cantina Bar). There is no chapter selection, but you can skip through the movie by pressing the next chapter button on the remote control.

I bought the movies at Ebay.com. All you have to do is search at Ebay using "Star Wars Trilogy DVD" as search string and you'll get a list of DVD's (and VCD's) on offer.

Buying the DVD's at Ebay saves me the trouble of capturing the original widescreen VHS tapes I own and burning the movies to SVCD's (I'm still waiting for the first dual-layer DVD-burner). I also own the Special Edition widescreen version on VHS and and the official Special Edition version on VideoCD and I propably will buy the official DVD's when they are released in september.
Buying the Original Trilogy on DVD is a bit of a grey area really. Officially it's not allowed, but as GL himself has stated once and again, these orginal versions do not exist anymore. So in fact he is not missing out on any sales to be made with them (also read a older column on this matter at The Digital Bits).
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What did you wind up spending if you don't mind my asking?
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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I used the "Buy it now" option to make sure I got my copy of the original trilogy. I paid $ 71,- (incl. shipping), which is about € 60,- for three movies sent to my mailing address. Not a bad deal, considered these versions most likely will never see a release on DVD.

You can buy these DVD's for less if you're willing to go for the bidding part. But you could be outbid and rist the change to not 'win' the item you were bidding on and thus not obtaining the movies. But then again, these DVD's are on offer by more sellers (and even offered more than once by the same seller).
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Originally posted by: motti_soLi love japanese food, but sushi does not rate too high on my list.
I'm with motti on this one: I only like cooked, not raw Japanese food. *g* Although one or two fish sorts taste quite good even in a raw state.

As for the topic: no surprise to me. I never expected Lucas to release the OT on DVD, not as the first OT DVD release anyway. But I had hope that he would at least release them later some time. Which now I know won't happen, since he no longer supports the original cuts.
Taylor: Oh H, whatever happened to the way of the warrior??
Harold: The way of the warrior doesn't stand a chance against the way of the wife.
('K2', 1991)
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cool... teriyaki meat is AWESOME!
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I find it so funny how quickly this went from a thread announcing the SE release on DVD to talk about sushi and back again. Weird how our trains of thought are conducted, eh?
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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dont even try to analyze us.
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It would make for a great grad thesis. But only if you've got a decade or so to spare for the study.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Kevin A
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