According to the annual rumors were George Lucas in person at the “Celebration V” Convention in Orlando announced that the complete Star Wars Saga will be released worldwide on Blu-ray in the fall of 2011. All six films are to appear as a box set here in the best picture and sound quality and contain more features.
Specific details have not yet been named, was at the convention, however, have shown a “Deleted Scene”, composed of Luke Skywalker in a lightsaber.
A report of the video entertainment site “VideoETA”, a news and information portal for new publications on the DVD market is fueling speculation that the Star Wars series would appear to match the 30-year anniversary soon on Blu-ray Disc.
The author of the report took a passage from the Quarterly Report of toy manufacturers “Hasbro to”: “[...] Looking ahead, Verrecchia said he expected Star Wars to continue to be a strong performer with Lucas planning a video release for this year’s 30th anniversary, a Star Wars animated TV show next year and a live-action Star Wars TV show in 2009. “Under continued:” He and his studio have a lot going on over the next several years to support the franchise. ”
Translated, this means: “[...] Verrecchia expected from the Star Wars movies still that they will be a strong performers because Lucas for this year’s 30th Anniversary of a video release, a Star Wars animated series for next year and a live-action Star Wars television series for 2009 planning. “He continued:” He and his studio have many things in the coming years in the planning stage to the franchise to support. ”
The vague term “video release”, ie, video publishing, led “VideoETA” to speculate that this publication on Blu-ray could be meant. Background: 20th Century Fox, which distributes the films of the company “Lucas Films’ favors, the Blu-ray technology. This assumption was not confirmed officially.
There are also other publications available. Among others, George Lucas announced at the film market “Show West Convention in 2005 that a further revision of the films were planned in order to convert a 3-D film format. There may be may be a simple DVD-Box, which includes all six parts. In addition, the episodes IV to VI have both the Special Edition as well as the theatrical version in the box. Until now only a collector of episodes IV to VI in the Special Edition, the theatrical versions and the episodes I to III in the trade.
George Lucas behaves more cautiously to new video technology. Thus, in 1997 the 20th anniversary of “only” brought out by new computer technology revisions as a special edition on VHS. Only in 2004 appeared the “Star Wars” episodes on DVD, although at that time, the market share of DVD was already relatively high. The fact that there are already high definition master tapes for all six parts, has been proved with the broadcasting of any part in the German pay TV channel PremiereHD end of last year. Rapid implementation of a successor to the DVD-media could very well be possible. At the moment, but can not be said that the fact that Blu-ray or the competing HD-DVD technology on the market are remarkable dissemination. It remains so until the 30-year anniversary on 25 May be seen what kind of gift to the fans it will be eventually.