a truly countless number of fans have told us that they would love to see and own the original version that they remember experiencing in theaters," said Jim Ward, President of LucasArts and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd. "We returned to the Lucasfilm Archives to search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD.

Now I get it, we were supposed to read that in a sarcastic voice. The blu is probably going to bring a whole new wave of bullshit about how impractical and expensive it would have been to do the OT. Strangely, it will mostly come from unpaid shills on the internet, deep in their religious loyalty, not even from LFL.