Drifter1989 said:

I'm never buying the altered editions. Harmy's despeshalized editions are the way to go for now. They made so many DVD releases since 2004 I kinda lost track and stopped caring. I think these DVD re releases are a lucas attempt at trying to trick people to buy altered versions. I've seen a few DVD releases claiming to be 'origonal versions' but weren't unaltered. Even the Blu Ray release by Disney turned out to be altered. Also these DVD re releases are a bit over priced. Some can go for 20 to 30 bucks just for altered episode 4 alone at some places. My friend got lucky and found the special editions of 4-6 on DVD for $10 and I just watched them at his house so I don't have to buy them to see the changes.

I hope George Lucas realizes that the true fans don't want altered Star Wars 4-6. They really should release an ultimate box set that has episodes 1-3 and 4-6 with theatrical unaltered versions as a bonus option and include DVD, Blu Ray, 3D and digital download copies.

The DVDs that claim to be the original that you're thinking of are probably the 2006 release. They actually do have the original cuts in there, they're just on the bonus disc, not the main feature disc (which is just a repressing of the 2004 discs). That bonus disc is what you see people on here referring to as the GOUT, for George's Original Unaltered Trilogy.