yoda-sama said:
And no, Fox would not be the right place to ask, as they would never spend the money to restore a property that will be handed off in a few years, at this point it is up to Disney/Lucasfilm to fit the bill for any new transfers and then tell Fox how high to jump.
It also isn't up to Fox what gets released (and when) in the first place. That's entirely up to Lucasfilm. I bet an email back from Fox would read "Are you kidding? We'd love to put out the original versions if only they'd let us!"
I'm assuming that the 2013 bd/dvd trilogy combo packs were something Fox was simply within its rights to reissue. Technically there's nothing on those discs that wasn't in the 2011 set. Yeah, it's the first time the 2011 versions were on dvd, but that's splitting hairs.
For some reason, the fact that the movies haven't been released individually on blu-ray gets my hopes up. It could mean that we might eventually get the blu-ray equivalent of the 2006 release, only done right this time.