Star Wars Blu-ray Release Date Set for Sept. 16

$CDN is worth more than $US, why the f*ck are we paying more? Suck it, Lucas.

Want!!!

So we can save one penny by buying the trilogy sets separately!

It's not your place to ask questions, just do as Mr. Lucas says! He told you to go and buy his movies for the 29th time and that's what you're supposed to do!!! [sarcasm]

And you can get 3 less discs for saving that penny!

To be honest, why would he go this far? Gets annoying how there's a new fer of the classics every year or so. Just leave them how they were, and stop messing them up

Plus, since the originals weren't filmed in HD, would blu ray even make a dif?

^ Youve got to be kidding me. Originals were on film which is actually higher resolution than Bluray. I've got Bluray versions of films made in the 60's that look fantastic.

I think Star Wars was filmed in 35mm which is roughly the same resolution as 6000p, which is way more than Blu-ray can handle.

Meh, I think I'll pass. I'll wait for it to come out on the next from of media. HVD? They'll all fit on one disc, then.

but their is no way they had 6000p in the 80's... what and eight track is making a comeback too right? /sarcasm

that is the reason 35mm film has been a standard for so many years

1.00 USD = 0.983400 CAD

One day US will be a few cents more, another CN will be a few cents more. You're still getting hosed big time though.

They had 6000p equivalent in the 60's, nevermind the 80's.

otocan you realize the exchange you posted shows CAD is worth more?

why is Vader so short?

I have the original Star Wars movie pre-thx on VHS, that is all I ever want to own

LMAO no they didn't, 35mm is an analogue format, the quality of the recording depends on the equipment used to shoot it not the film itself, the are NO films made in the 60's that are 6000p equivalent.

The reason blurays of old films look so good is the film can be blown up without becoming pixalated and then transposed into the 1080p frame, basically their upscaling the film and putting it on BR and because their equipment is better than a dvd player upscaling to 1080p on the fly it looks better..

I don't even own any of the movies so I might just grab the BR's on release.

I'm only interested in a cleaned up 1080p version of the original trilogy. Re-do the audio for DTS-MA or DD-TrueHD and then leave it alone.

Han shot first!!!!!

Sorry, but you're wrong. I never said it was commonplace, but there was equipment in the 60's capable of amazingly high resolutions and quality.

you do knowe there is a media well above 1 tb its caled a hardrive

To jamesedgeuk2000 and others who think they know something - Yes movies pre 2000 ish (and certainly many since) were shot on analog film, but that film does have an equivalent resolution when compared side by side with a pure digital recording, and it's definitely much higher than 1920 x 1080. It doesn't need to be upscaled to get there either. If it was shot on 70mm film (very common) its equivalent resolution will likely be close to 6000p.

As for me I'd like to see them release the originals without the revisionist history. The first Star Wars movie had no episode at all, for example. The "Episode IV" garbage was added later. Even the so called episode VI was simply "Star Wars III" back when it was released.

If you doubt this I suggest checking for the old Newsweek cover from the 80's before spouting off, and read the George Lucas interview inside while you're at it. At that time he had some ideas for other Star Wars films but nothing was set such that the first three movies had episode numbers. I'd be curious to know if anyone else has seen if this has been publicized. As far as I've been able to see it's just been forgotten and never challenged.

@chris_bc_33

you must be retarded or autistic. everything you said was off by one degree. do you even know what the "p" stands for? PROGRESSIVE VIDEO. IT CAN ONLY BE DONE DIGITALLY. sorry, kid.... you're probably some hipster who thinks using tube amps produce the best sound. analog is dead. digital is here to stay. you are grasping onto the past. quit reminiscing and start evolving.

Not quite correct. I distinctly remember the original VHS release in the 80's having the episodes IV-VI tags in the introductions. Wikipedia, for what it's worth, confirms that the second two movies were released in theaters as episodes V and VI, with the first Star Wars film having its episode number added later. You are right, however, that media at the time didn't give much attention to the official episode numbers.

From Wikipedia:
"The film series began with Star Wars, released on May 25, 1977. This was followed by two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21, 1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25, 1983. The opening crawl of the sequels disclosed that they were numbered as "Episode V" and "Episode VI" respectively, though the films were generally advertised solely under their subtitles. Though the first film in the series was simply titled Star Wars, it later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels."

I'm fully aware that the "p" stands for progressive, but in your case it's Pinhead. Progressive in this discussion refers to the apparent visual quality seen by the viewer. Your eyes and your brain aren't seeing anything in digital, so the only thing relevant is how good it looks when you watch it.

The original assertion was that Blu-ray wouldn't yield any higher quality, and the discussion went from there. The 6000 was an estimate by someone earlier as to what film could do. Go do some research on equivalent resolutions in film versus digital and maybe you will learn something.

shoelessinsight - Have you checked out the Newsweek issue I mentioned? I don't know if I trust Wikipedia, and I know there have been many revisions to the VHS/Laservision/DVD versions made available for sale.

Check out www.originaltrilogy.com for some guys that are really into maintaining the original theatrical releases. I just looked at it briefly a few minutes ago.

it would be neet to see episode 1-3 on blueray because it was shot at sutch a wide angle upscaled for hdtv there could be even more on both sides that you missed when when the resolutions were only 480p. as for the "they diddint have hdtv back then" argument they diddint have DVDs either. and the VHS's are far from lossless data. you lose so much detail when you go from film to VHS. and when they put it on dvd the first time it was far from lossless i think the data limit was just 3gb back then? the blue rays will have at least 10 times more data on them.

at first i thought the MSRPs were a bit high but then agaain those are just the sugestaid retail price. expect to be able to pick all 6 disks at wallmart or target for under 100 bucks especially during black friday

george lucas failed epicly making episodes 1, 2 and 3
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I will just wait until the movies are re-re-re-released in 3D in a few years...

Milk that cow...

He didn't say the movies back then were displayed in 6000p, he said that was their digital equivalent in resolution. Older movies obviously didn't have a resolution because they were projected from analog film, but as far as raw detail is concerned a 35mm film is very close to that obscenely high resolution. It's the entire reason why you can make a Blu-ray of an old movie and have it breathe new life into it. The last time people were able to see the movie look this good or better was all the way back then in the theaters.

When TVs upgrade to 4K/2160p resolution (3840x2160 which is the next step already made by many TV manufacturers, albeit still incredibly expensive), they will still be able to re-release old movies and make them look yet even better. Movies even way back in the 60s were made with incredibly high quality, high detail 35mm film that home viewing technologies are now only beginning to even remotely approach.

and in other news, the 9 disc set will be $50 12 months after it is released and everyone gets hosed by the first release

milk it to the death seems to be Lucas' motto

No, it's not.
US dollars are worth more than CDN dollars. The prices are correct...
If you don't believe me look it up.