As some of you may know, I have many friends who work in the DVD industry in various capacities. One of them has passed along an interesting piece of information that has not and will not be release to the public that you'll certainly find interesting:
Lucasfilm is planning to release new Star Wars DVD's every November for the next 10 years.
The content of those DVD's is not known to my contact, however he did confirm that many at Lucasfilm insisted that they take the time to do the anamorphic transfer for this years release. Obviously, they were shot down.
That is absolutely and completely ridiculously untrue, in every possible way. Clearly, with the upcoming animated series, the upcoming live-action series, and Indiana Jones 4, Lucasland has way too much on their table right now to bother releasing a different DVD set every year. And even if they didn't, in no way they would take advantage of their fans by pulling some stunt like that.
DVD has been around for nine years, and it's only had two releases of the original trilogy in that entire time! The first in Fall 2004, and the next in
Fall 2005. And then there's the set that's due this fall. And we still have the re-release of that set with anamorphic versions of the originals, because "the fans demanded it." Of course, the 30th anniversary is next year; surely there'll be some new DVDs to commemorate that. Don't forget about the 3D versions of the complete saga that they're working on. Us fans are going to want to own those, too. And then there's the high-definition versions. Maybe we'll get separate, vastly-different versions for each of the two formats, if we're lucky. And a year or two after they come out, we can expect a new release of the original-original trilogy, again because "the fans demanded it." (But they'll be in standard-DVD format only, because Lucasfilm "won't have the time/money/technology" to transfer them to high-definition. And looming on the horizon is the ultimate, mega 50th anniversary set due in 2027, on the brand-new holographic disc format. And then there's Anyone still reading this? Seriously? bull****. It's too small! The only way you can possibly still be reading this at this size is if you've quoted my post, and are reading it in your reply window, where it appears completely normal, until it's posted, and the little "size tags" do their dirty work, rendering it all illegible again. . .
