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| Registered: June 27, 2007 |  Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is an excerpt of an Interview with George Lucas by a German Magazine: (I took the Liberty to translate it in English)
WS-Vision: Will the Indiana Jones and Star Wars Movies soon make their debut in High Definition
George Lucas: That will definitely happen. We will wait though, until Blu Ray has established itself more, because until now they just won the Format War. It will take a year or two until this format will have established itself.
That was it folks. So at least he is planning a release for the somewhat near-future. | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | He did exactly the same thing with DVD and made nearly exactly the same comment. Star Wars was not released until 2004...SIX years after the introduction of the DVD format, despite being among the top requested during that entire 6 year stretch. George will release them when HE is ready to, not one minute before. I am also certain that whenever the release occurs and I would not expect it for a minimum of two years, you can be practically guaranteed that it will take full advantage of the power of BD, which is only in its infancy in terms of exploring its capabilities.
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,449 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have bought every release of Star Wars - I'm a total junkie - can't wait!!!!!
What I would hope that he is going to do would be so mind blowing that maybe it will even take a couple of years ... I assume the process is very intensive, right? | | | Thanks for your support.
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting mediadogg: Quote:
I assume the process is very intensive, right? No, it just takes him all that time to make room for all the extra money...  |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
He did exactly the same thing with DVD and made nearly exactly the same comment. Star Wars was not released until 2004...SIX years after the introduction of the DVD format, despite being among the top requested during that entire 6 year stretch. George will release them when HE is ready to, not one minute before. I am also certain that whenever the release occurs and I would not expect it for a minimum of two years, you can be practically guaranteed that it will take full advantage of the power of BD, which is only in its infancy in terms of exploring its capabilities.
Skip It think picture and soundwise they can already do it pretty perfect. He'll wait though till he can sell more units. If I were him I would take in account that the release of this movies would further the expansion of the medium immensely. He could release it now and then another special Edition in two years. | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | He seems to be following the Disney model so as not to dilute his product. Only problem is, he doesn't have all that much product. It's not like he's got some extra titles to experiment with. Consequently, he won't even bother until we routinely see Blu Ray titles pushing over a million units in sales. Gonna be a while. | | | | Last edited: by mdnitoil |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting mdnitoil: Quote:
He seems to be following the Disney model so as not to dilute his product. Only problem is, he doesn't have all that much product. It's not like he's got some extra titles to experiment with. Consequently, he won't even bother until we routinely see Blu Ray titles pushing over a million units in sales. Gonna be a while. In another thread I read that Blu Ray sales make up 1,2% of the DVD market in the UK. Which is a 500% increase to last year. I guess he won't bother with that and spend some money on a decent transfer until it's really a lot more established. Like he did say in the interview | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,490 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
He did exactly the same thing with DVD and made nearly exactly the same comment. Star Wars was not released until 2004...SIX years after the introduction of the DVD format, despite being among the top requested during that entire 6 year stretch. Skip actually it was over seven years.. DVD was introduced, i believe, in the spring of 1997 and Star Wars made it to DVD in Sept 0f 2004 .. So we can we wait till 2013.. ??? Hope I can still see by then..  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,114 |
| | Posted: | | | | For all that waiting for the Star Wars DVDs, they had problems with the audio and video on some of the movies, showing a lack of care. |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Doombear: Quote:
For all that waiting for the Star Wars DVDs, they had problems with the audio and video on some of the movies, showing a lack of care. Yeah but they should have a pretty pristine print of the restored versions. They only need to make a DTS HD Soundtrack (fox uses only DTS) and there we go. But if blu ray still hovers at 1,2% of total sales they won't bother | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
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He did exactly the same thing with DVD and made nearly exactly the same comment. Star Wars was not released until 2004...SIX years after the introduction of the DVD format, despite being among the top requested during that entire 6 year stretch. Skip
actually it was over seven years.. DVD was introduced, i believe, in the spring of 1997 and Star Wars made it to DVD in Sept 0f 2004 .. So we can we wait till 2013.. ??? Hope I can still see by then..
I don't think it's gonna be that long. I'd say 2010 or 11.. Then blu ray will have, hopefully, established itself. But, if you remember, the restored versions were first released on laserdisc, only on laserdisc, even though there was already DVD | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, after recent announcements on amazon it seems that at least Indy 4 will come to Blu Ray by the end of the year. | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,490 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't believe George has as much control (if any) over the Indy Films as he does with the SW films.. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | According to various sources he really controls the rights. Even though they are Spielberg movies. Let's see. It's said that Indy 4 will be released on Blu in September | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,490 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Stephan.klose: Quote:
Let's see. It's said that Indy 4 will be released on Blu in September Ahh the fourth quarter,, as I predicted ... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,435 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
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Let's see. It's said that Indy 4 will be released on Blu in September
Ahh the fourth quarter,, as I predicted ... Maybe I am dense, but can you explain why "at the airport..,, Next stop.. WallyWorld... " is a hint at a fourth-quarter release? Besides, unless it's the last week of September, which I'd let count, September is the last month of the third quarter...? | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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