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Posted by guv on 08/31/06 19:06
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:49:42 +0100, "Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net>
wrote:
>mmaker@my-deja.com wrote:
>> mo wrote:
>>> You may find having the choice to buy a DVD is actually the
>>> definition of NOT being screwed over :)
>>
>> Being given the choice of buying a DVD you don't want is like offering
>> hungry people the chance to buy a turd sandwich.
>>
>> Lucas knows that people want good-quality DVDs of the original 'Star
>> Wars' movies without all the crap he added to them, so instead he
>> offers them a crappy 4:3 letterboxed transfer that was used for the
>> laserdisk. Then when few people buy it he'll say 'aha, they said they
>> wanted to buy the original version of the movies, but when we offered
>> it to them they didn't buy it, so there's no reason to ever release
>> them again.'
>>
>
>I'd say it's more a case of having the chance to sell it again next year...
>"Finally -The original trilogy as they were _meant_ to be seen!"
>
>I titter at it all.
Me too. I hate to say this - but vote with your wallet - en mass! It
would be rather ironic to see a SW release flunk... but with all those
Jedi's out there, Yoda Lucas will still coin it.
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