From reading online about a 30th Anniversary Edition of the Original Trilogy coming out on DVD I think I'm almost at my wit's end for buying Star Wars DVD's.

The marketing machine at Lucasfilm is obviously top notch knowing their fan base & the amount of money they can make via the DVD. However, shelling out around $45 for the OT when it first came out on DVD was an investment I was more than willing to make. Fast forward two years and presto, the Original Trilogy is now available not packaged all-in-one so those half dozen people around the world who only want to purchase RotJ can own just that movie & save themselves $30....oh yeah, but as an added bonus the original theatrical versions of the films will be included for anyone interested. Well of course die-hard fans are going to want that - $40+ more spent on the movies again.

Oh now the 30th Anniversary is coming up in 2007...let's put out another box set of the movies with a special somethingorother on it, and of course the die-hards will buy that too (yes me included). I'm trying to think what exactly will be put in this collection to make people buy it.

Perhaps we'll get all 6 movies in one big collector's case. Maybe the OT will have the Special Editions/Only Edition and the original theatrical releases as well. What if there's an Easter Egg on one of the discs with the Holiday Special. Some bonus feature will have to be added to these movies for people to go out & buy them again...or will the fans just buy any new set because it is Star Wars & it says 30th Anniversary Special Edition?

Of course, perhaps Lucas has decided to swing towards either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD and that's the only way the film(s) will be released. If that is the case then everyone will have to go out & buy the correct DVD player...which may or may not be the overall winner in the new DVD format war. I'm certain there will be more than a few unhappy consumers if they have their brand spanking new Blu-Ray DVD player purchased for $800 to play their Star Wars DVD collection on, only to have HD-DVD win the race and Blu-Ray becomes the new Betamax. (note: I own neither of the two types of new DVD players so I have no bias towards either one)

In any event, I think it is fairly safe to say it would be cheaper for me in the long run to just give up my first-born child to Lucas than to continualy buy the same movies over & over again...but that said I will be one of those people out there eagerly awaiting whatever version of the film gets released...again...and again...and probably again one more time.