yoda-sama said:

Lucas basically intended for his newer versions to culturally eclipse the originals or at least physically outlast the mediums it was widely available on (I will boldly assume that quote was from before the GOUT).

You are correct, sir. And while the DVD won't fade like VHS, it will nonetheless be eclipsed by HD and beyond -- especially since it's non-anamorphic, and from a very old master.

Here's a great piece about the importance of the OOT. It has the Lucas quote that I posed above. The site is down, but the Internet Archive has some of the content:

http://web.archive.org/web/20121230052150/http://savestarwars.com/righttoculturalheritage.html