zombie84 said:

I'm also sick of people repeating this "fact": the 2006 DVD sold poorly so people must not want them.

Where do people get this from? What sales numbers are they looking at?

The amazon.com archives for Star Wars 2006 DVD only go back to April 1st, 2007--after the fall and christmas releases, after the new years releases and starting into the summer releases, basically an eternity after its September 2006 releases when it had been long forgotten. And its sales rank is #600 for DVD. That's remarkably strong considering amazon has literally hundreds of thousands of DVDs, with over a dozen major studio releases every single week and over a dozen smaller releases each week (do the math: approx. 25 weeks after its september releases x 24=600 releases. So, Star Wars was among the highest sellers at the time it was released).

I think it comes from Lucas who said the originals sold poorly on Vhs in comparison to E.T.

The 1997 special edition vhs sold better according to him so i guess that means no one wants the old versions.