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Original Star Wars Trilogy to be released on DVD

~Shard~ said:
If it has anything to do with Star Wars, trust me, it's worth something. :p :cool:
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It's true. There are a lot of Simpson's Comic Book Guy type people out there that are REALLY into everything related to that Star Trek thingie. I'm kidding again! Topic... too easy to... make jokes... about... Can't stop myself! :D
 
~Shard~ said:
Sweet! A former manager of mine has the original trilogy on laserdisc as well, and has never opened the packaging or anything - the set is probably worth a bit of money I'm guessing! :cool:
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Not as much as you might think. The going rate on eBay seems to be about $60 for the entire "Definitive" boxed set... much less than the $250 I originally paid for it. Of course, the video and audio quality are lower than what's expected on DVD, so that probably factors into it.
 
clayj said:
Not as much as you might think. The going rate on eBay seems to be about $60 for the entire "Definitive" boxed set... much less than the $250 I originally paid for it. Of course, the video and audio quality are lower than what's expected on DVD, so that probably factors into it.
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Ah I see, interesting. Yeah, I thought it would be worth a bit more since it is more of a rarity in some respects - you don't hear from too many people who have the trilogy in that format. Ah well, it's a cool collector's item if nothing else, I guess. I still have all my original Star Wars toys, even though they're not in mint condition, let alone still in the original packaging... ;) So what does an Anakin Skywalker go for these days anyway? :cool:
 
I'm a sucker for movies & nostalgia. I was two when my aunt "Babs" (who was babysitting me) took me to the RKO drive-in where she watched (and I slept through) Star Wars. I do remember going to see Empire @ that same theater, in that same stylish, lime-green station wagon. -I know b/c she told me it was the same car - We parked the car backwards so i could watch out of the rear windshield. I had a hotdog, soda, & we split a jumbo popcorn. Babs had juju bees and snowcaps. That was the first drive-in movie I actually saw. It was a really big night for me.

B/c of my overly-sentimental regard for my lost youth and my taste for movies in general, even George's shameless money-grubbing efforts probably won't stop me from purchasing this redundant set.
 
I've got the original series on laserdisc in the "Definitive Laserdisc Collection" with 3 double-sided discs per film. The sound was cleaned up and I believe that it was the first THX-certified release of anything. Since laserdisc was the only way to get digital sound for under $40,000 at the time, it was pretty good, though there was no Dolby Digital then.
 
Usually "Definitive" means "this is the LAST and best version". Since those laserdiscs came out, there've been... (counts on fingers) something like 10 newer releases of Star Wars (not joking).

I guess GL has a different dictionary than the rest of us. Now I've thought about it, I'm almost certainly going to pass on the new DVDs. I like my existing DVDs just fine, and my laserdiscs will suffice should I ever get the urge to watch the movies in their true* original format.

* True = totally-unedited-in-ANY-way.
 
That deleted scene is awesome.
Also, I think it is cool that the originals will be on DVD, because some of the stuff was just better in the originals, the hd crap sorta made some parts lose the feel they had on the old VHS of the originals.
 
motulist said:
They're only doing this because they know it's the version that everyone has always wanted and so they've put out every possible variation on Star Wars EXCEPT this one so people will keep buying every permutation hoping to get close to what they really want. Now that HD formats are about to come out they suddenly give people the version of the film they've always wanted because they know it will be the last version to come out in DVD format. I'll betcha that the first version of Star Wars released in HD won't be the original theatrical release. They'll go through the whole thing again giving out a million versions execpt the one everyone wants so that they can keep selling different HD versions of the film up until Ultra Mega HD is about to come out, at which point the last HD version released will be the orginal theatrical release.
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You hit it so perfect.

This is ol' Georgies' plan.
 
clayj said:
Usually "Definitive" means "this is the LAST and best version". Since those laserdiscs came out, there've been... (counts on fingers) something like 10 newer releases of Star Wars (not joking).

I guess GL has a different dictionary than the rest of us. Now I've thought about it, I'm almost certainly going to pass on the new DVDs. I like my existing DVDs just fine, and my laserdiscs will suffice should I ever get the urge to watch the movies in their true* original format.

* True = totally-unedited-in-ANY-way.
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As expensive as those laserdiscs were, the original, much earlier video tapes were nearly as expensive at $80.00 each and I don't think you can count the quality on video tapes as all that great, especially in 1981.

I'm still disappointed that the DVD collections were Special Edition, modified versions. If you keep improving things, how can you keep a historical perspective?
 
Jaffa Cake said:
I don't know what price that would fetch, but I'm sure that George Lucas would prefer you to get rid of it and replace it with a Hayden Christensen action figure...
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Wouldn't a Hayden Christensen wooden carving be more appropriate?

Star Wars is the very first movie I can ever remember seeing. I was perhaps five (I'm 30 now by way of comparison), and my grandfather had them on LD, and I'd watch it in his study whenever I could. I also remember having to go find him when the first side ran out (right after Tarkin's "Terminate her, immediately.") because the grandchildren weren't allowed to touch the LD player :D .

I've got the re-releases on DVD, and I don't really see the need to buy them again, unless there's more deleted scenes that Lucas recently stumbled across and decided to include.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
I don't know what price that would fetch, but I'm sure that George Lucas would prefer you to get rid of it and replace it with a Hayden Christensen action figure...
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Then he can come over to my house and make me. :p :D
 
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