George Lucas Announces Star Wars on Blu-ray

OH YES! This is what we’ve been waiting for! At the Star Wars Celebration V convention this past weekend, George Lucas finally announced that Star Wars is coming to HD for the first time. Now, before you get your hopes up too much, it’s only the new versions. So all you purists out there, you’ll have to stick to those DVDs they issued. Why? George Lucas said that to transfer the old versions would have been very very expensive because a lot of restoration would have to be done to bring them up to par. I suppose that could be true, but still…Regardless, the set will also contain new special features including some never before seen deleted scenes from the movies. One of these deleted scenes was shown at the Celebration. Look it up on Youtube because by the time this article goes live, chances are the video I put in this post will be removed for copyright infringement.

Why did it take so long for Star Wars to come out on Blu-ray? George Lucas was playing the same card he did when DVD came out: he waited until it caught on with consumers and more people were able to buy it. Makes sense since putting it out right away might not be a good idea since a lot of the early Blu-ray titles weren’t that great. But yeah, Star Wars, Blu-ray! EXCITEMENT!

Source: Blu-ray.com