Originally "Never To Be Released Again..."
It's baaaack....!
Star Wars: The Original Trilogy Today on DVD (until December 31, 2006)
You can now own the "
Original" Original Trilogy on DVD,
but there are drawbacks...Drawback #1 - You have to
REbuy the
SAME 2004 DVD versions that have been available in Box Set form for the past
2 years in order to "get" the "
Original" versions - you're getting TWO movies in each movie's case.
Drawback #2 - The "
Original" Original Trilogy versions are
NON-anamorphic!
If you don't yet have a 16x9 TV set, this doesn't matter to you yet, but if you DO (
and you WILL soon, since 4x3 TVs are going the way of the Dodo's), this is
UNFORGIVABLE.
Bad, Lucasfilm, BAD!
Drawback #3 (
speculative) - It's already been confirmed by Fox that next year, in 2007, which is the
30th Anniversary of the original
Star Wars (aka
Episode IV-A New Hope) and there
IS some kind of big special Box Set coming (
but details are not yet known - maybe we'll find out soon, after people have REbought these DVDs) - so there's a possibility that these "
Original" Original Trilogy DVDs will be included and that they
may be anamorphic [due to all the furvor over these releases lacking the anamorphic feature] )
Though there are some good things about these "new" DVDs:
Pro #1 - If you haven't yet bought the Original Trilogy DVDs, this is a good time for casual DVD owners. You get
TWO versions of each film (
Star Wars,
The Empire Strikes Back &
Return Of The Jedi) - and being a "casual" DVD owner, chances are pretty good you own a 4x3 TV set, so the non-anamorphic issue is a, well, non-issue.
Pro #2 - You can buy the movies seperately.
If you only want
Star Wars, you don't have to buy
Empire or
Jedi, etc, etc.
The previous Original Trilogy DVD releases (
there have been two others) were only available together as a 3-movie Box Set (First as a 4-disc set with 3 movies + bonus disc, then as a 3-movie only set, without the bonus disc).
Also out today is the
LEGO: Star Wars II game (featuring the Original Trilogy) for all platforms.
May The Force Be With You...Always
RobMac
