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#294187
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I say forget the OOT on DVD, lets target HD-DVD/Blue Ray Now
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Originally posted by: zombie84
Well thats kind of a different situation in that there was no such thing as home video before that period.


This is also something I was considering. We weren't going to see an anamorphic OOT any earlier than 2008 anyway. There's no way LFL would bring it out the very next year and piss off everyone who bought the GOUT. 2009, on the other hand, seems totally in the safe zone for LFL and as it has been said many times on this board people won't even want another standard dvd release unless there's the anamorphic OOT or there are some substantial new extras.

Look at what's happening with Blade Runner. It's only one of thousands of films in WB's library and yet they're giving it a five disc treatment. Why, that's more than Gone With The Wind! Star Wars is one of, what, only several dozen LFL movies at the most? How long do they really think they can hold out on us?
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#294049
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I say forget the OOT on DVD, lets target HD-DVD/Blue Ray Now
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That pretty much sums it up perfectly, Mike O.

I won't say that Lucasfilm should just make up its damn mind to keep the originals buried. Finally having a high def release of the OOT, even finding out that they planned to do this all along, would be the lesser of two evils (though not by a whole lot). I love how Lucas has been pushing the whole saga ethic on us and even then releases the OT on dvd as one single box set. Well, the exploitation of people's nostalgia continues....

If Blade Runner and CE3K can get simultaneous HD releases with all of the bonus features intact, to say nothing of including multiple versions of the film, why can't Lucas just come to his senses and release two versions of each movie? That's all we're really asking for. Give us a special edition of the prequels so we can finally enjoy those and give us the original version of the OT so we can finally enjoy that again.
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#293984
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I say forget the OOT on DVD, lets target HD-DVD/Blue Ray Now
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What zombie said.

The single biggest reason for eventually upgrading to a high def video format is that it bypasses the existing television signals (NTSC and PAL) and allows us all to actually watch movies at their normal 24 fps speed. I'm considering not ever buying a dvd again and just saving my money for trips to the theater until I can get an hdtv and whatever format has (hopefully) won the battle by then.
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#293316
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Lucas wearing "Han shot first" shirt during Indy IV production
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Seriously folks, Lucas had better get his head on straight and release the original versions in good quality if he thinks it's OK to just walk around wearing a shirt like that. I don't mean to push my idea for the next release on you guys for the umpteenth time, but I was watching some of the superman returns blu-ray disc on my uncle's ps3 last night and the possibilities are driving me nuts. All LFL would need to do is release a 6 disc, double sided dual layer blu-ray disc set with the original version on one side and the revisionist version on the other and I'm pretty sure just about everyone buying it would be happy.
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#293137
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A New Direction For The Petition
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Originally posted by: Mike O
What we really need is someone willing to champion the cause; Kevin Smith or Roger Ebert or someone.


I actually work at a lego store and as you probably know we sell Star Wars products. My dream would be to use this as a stepping stone to working at LFL someday and be the one to actually go through the Lucasfilm archives to "search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD." It begs the question of why someone working there hasn't already done that and even moreso why someone didn't speak up about it once the non-anamorphic debacle started, although who says someone didn't? Then again, maybe there's just that symptom I was talking about in one of my posts. Maybe they look at it as a way of life and not as goddamn movies. Maybe the yes man and yes woman mentality is just too prevalent.

As an aside, you can now probably understand why I've been as pissed as anyone about the GOUT release. September 12, 2006 was going to be such a proud day for me with the release of lego star wars II and the unaltered OT.
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#292915
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A New Direction For The Petition
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Something profound just struck me.

Wouldn't it be better to name it fanpreservations.com rather than fanedits.com? As someone so eloquently put it in the most recent thread on the topic of the petition in the suggestions and ideas forum, fan edits are nice and all but they've now superseded the original priorities of the site. Despite my bitching that Star Wars could end up as the only buried movie out there, there are other movies on dvd and/or high def that are not available in their original form if at all. That doesn't even cover the matter of movies like Star Wars which aren't allowed to be shown on film even if a good print is available.

I'm being a little off topic so let me just say that in regards to the petition we need to say foremost that we know LFL has at least something of the OT (and we can hope it's the interpostives) because they flat out said it in the email last year. We also need to get across the fact, however subtly, that if they've only been planning to eventually remaster the movies this entire goddamn time then they'd better do it now because it's only pissing people off at this point and the '06 release was the most shameless double dip in the history of home video.

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ADM, I heard the McCallum interview from Celebration Europe and maybe it's just me and my biases but after announcing Young Indy's dvd street date there was absolutely no reaction whatsoever from the audience whereas an announcement of the restored OOT hitting dvd, even with no solid street date in place, would've gotten quite a response. I mean, there's been rumor of Young Indy hitting dvd for years now, it's not exactly a non-issue especially on forums like these, but even then it got absolutely no reaction when its street date was announced for the first time in that McCallum interview and I think that silence was the sound of the well finally running dry.
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#292740
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A New Direction For The Petition
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Originally posted by: Mielr
As far as I'm concerned, the blue tint and the crushed blacks in the '04 DVDs is a non-issue since I refuse to watch the SEs- but in all honesty, I wouldn't mind if Lowry gave a similar "blue" treatment to the films again as long as they were the 77/80/83 versions (in HD).


Agree with your first point (although I find myself watching them from time to time).
Disagree with your second point, and it's unlikely that would happen this time since a restored OOT release would be made from the interpostive and not the negative that was used for the SE.
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#291391
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So, um... no new DVD's announced this year?
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I was at the lego store the other day. I worked there the past couple of summers and I was stopping by to tell them I was still available. Anyway, I noticed the 30th anniversary sets are out now, and I thought back to that german lego memo. What do you people think about that? Do you think it was actually legit and LFL just decided to change their plans after the fact?