Less than an hour before I found out the news, I was describing a time when the EU only consisted of Splinter of the Minds Eye, the Han Solo trilogy, the Lando trilogy, Heir to the Empire and Dark Empire as "a more civilized age." If only I'd have known how true my word where.

The Digital Bits have updated there article with more details:

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/103012_1300

Of note: Fox retains certain distribution rights to the existing Star Wars films but not the new franchise films going forward

This to me suggests that nothing will change with regards to the OUT, Disney wont have any say in whether it will be released or not.

I doubt this will affect the already announced 3D re-release of Episodes II & III in September & October 2013 but how will this affect the 3D release of the OT?

I'd expect to see all 3 released throughout 2014 in preparation for the new movies in "2015." I put the year in quotation marks as I don't think a new Star Wars movie could be released in that short a time scale.

As for my thoughts on a Sequel Trilogy, they haven't changed since March, 2011

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/the-reasons-why-episodes-7-8-and-9-will-should-be-made/post/482854/#TopicPost482854

There's no artistic reason to continue the story that ended with the deaths of Vader & Palpatine and this is all about money.

I'm not holding my breath for a decent blu-ray release of any Disney owned Star Wars either. They manged to royally fuck up the UK release of The Avengers on blu-ray by attempting to deny it was censored and releasing it without any extras that I returned mine to amazon and purchased the US disc instead.

I hope I'm wrong, but I've got a bad feeling about this.