Harmy said:

Wow, guys, I'm surprised at this uproar about the sales. Did you seriously expect anything else? I mean, it's STAR WARS on Blu-Ray ;-)

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3 of my friends, who were all initially upset when they heard of the changes (or pretended to be), went ahead and bought the box set anyways for this exact reason.

At this point, I am resigned to the fact that we may never see the OOT in HD and there's nothing we can do about it, but as others have already said, when George wants to do the inevitable double dip in a year or two we may get them as a special feature (I doubt it). Here's hoping.