Találtam egy állat cikket a miért nem jelenik meg a SW dvd-n témakörben, nem fordítom le, tessék tudni angolul :))

Hey, everybody--let's beat a dead horse!

At least, that's what TheForce.Net figures we'll be doing if we talk about George Lucas'reluctance to release the Star Wars films on DVD. To them, I'm just "wasting bandwidth" right now. Never mind
that this is just another classic tactic from Lucasfilm, to continue in stubborn ignorance even in the face of overwhelming fan protest. Never mind that Lucas is betraying his own platitudes on high-quality film presentation in refusing to put out his movies on the highest-quality home theater medium available. (Yeah, that widescreen VHS tape of The Phantom Menace will be quite the THX masterpiece there, George, especially when compared to even a hastily-compiled DVD version.)

Let's not even recall the editorial which TheForce.Net themselves wrote about the issue last October. I guess as the PREMIER Star Wars site on the web, they hold final sway on when acting in protest on a Star Wars-related issue is relevant or "beating a dead horse." And why was
there no petition or letter campaign organized through the PREMIER Star Wars website for such a hot-button fan issue? Were they too afraid of upsetting their favored-nations status with Lucasfilm to act on the matter?

Fortunately, someone is acting on the issue, and whether they're beating a dead horse or cutting off the horse's head for disposal in Rick McCallum's bed, it's about time someone did something. Before I tell you about their campaign, let's check out what the opposition has to say on the issue, in the form of a McCallum quote from the Lucasfilm Jedi Council section of the official Star Wars website. Hal, roll the videotape:

"Well there's no conspiracy at work here, I assure you. It's really about exploiting an exciting medium in the best possible way. George hopes to do something special with the DVD release but he isn't available to work on it right now since we're in pre-production on Episode II, with principal photography scheduled to begin this summer in Australia.
Until George has some time to concentrate on it, we don't anticipate releasing any of the Star Wars movies on DVD in the foreseeable future."

Lemme give the dead horse a few swags from my own billy club here. Rick, we're not morons. We've heard this before; we KNOW Lucas is planning a maxi-big DVD release for all six films once the prequel trilogy is complete. He's been saying that for months. We believe him. I'm already excited about it. But frankly, such statements have NOTHING to do with what seems to be the current fan opinion on the internet: that the release of a Special Edition box set on DVD in five or six years has NOTHING to do with the
potential release of film-only editions NOW.

George can concentrate on the Star Wars DVD releases all he wants when he's done with the prequels. Personally, I'm all in favor of him concentrating on the new movies. BUT that
doesn't mean he can't assign one of his lieutenants to throw together a movie-only edition of the films tomorrow. It could
be on store shelves by the summer and sit there for the next five years—until it's deleted just in time to make room for the Super Genius Edition box set. He certainly didn't have any problem releasing a couple of VHS editions of the original
trilogy over time, so why not use the same strategy with DVD? He'd make all the film's fans happy, he'd be riding the cresting wave of DVD support (over five million players sold in the U.S.--this is not a fringe market anymore) and he'd be taking advantage of the best available technology to present his films in the BEST format possible. He claims to be a connoisseur of fine film presentation--why, then, is he
sticking Star Wars fans with substandard VHS editions of their favorite films? (On top of all that, he'd make scads of money off a film-only DVD release, but we know such petty concerns aren't relevant to an altruist like Lucas. It's the art that matters to him--oh, and also shoving thousands of dancing Jar-Jar Binks dolls onto store shelves.)

Couple the lack of any Star Wars DVDs with the similar vacancy in the realm of the Indiana Jones films, and you've got a real puzzler. Lucasfilm even remastered the Indy films for re-release just before last Christmas--and yet they were
only released on VHS. Where's the love for DVD fans? This is no longer a format in its infancy; it's gaining more and more consumer interest as the months go on. It's growing in a major way, most importantly beyond the high-end home
theater geeks and into the mainstream consumer realm.
And the absence of the Star Wars films from the format is a huge glaring oversight that will only grow larger over the next five years as DVD continues to grow.

You know what, though? That's all been said before. I probably really am beating a dead horse by writing all that--others have said the same, over and over, across the internet for months. Yet no one has organized to collect fan
opinions on this issue, until now. The good folks at the Digital Bits, DVD File and Digital Man Interactive have banded together to form the Star Wars on DVD Campaign.
They've bought space in Variety to print an open letter to George Lucas and they're designing some clever graphics to protest the Lucasfilm party line, but most importantly, they've organized an online petition which fans can sign to express their support for film-only releases of the Star Wars films on DVD as soon as possible.

We've ranted in editorials on websites, in discussions on usenet and in the privacy of our own homes--it's about time someone organized us. If you care at all about seeing Star Wars on DVD, take a moment to surf over to the petition and fill in the info. I'm not usually a big fan of online fan campaigns; they can often be exercises in futility, and maybe this one is too. But at least it's proactive. At least it's got a focus and direction. At least it's not beating a dead
horse, as I'm allegedly doing right now.