boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (07/06/84)
The original posting appeared only in net.movies.sw. I took it upon myself to post this reply to net.movies, net.video, and net.sf-lovers as well. If this upsets any of you, c'est la vie. From: !fluke!ron > Before we shut down this newsgroup for a while, does > anyone know anything about the *official*, *legal* > release of TESB or even ROTJ?... > ...there was a syndicated story in > the local newspaper last winter to the effect that > Lucasfilms (or Lucas?) has decided to *never* > release TESB or ROTJ to the disk, video cassette, > or cable markets. > So does anyone have reliable information on what the > status of these 2 films is? For the record, I had also heard (many years ago) that Lucas did not want to let the SW movies go to disk/tape/cable, and was upset with 20th Century Fox for doing so with A NEW HOPE (They had distribution control over that film --- not so with TESB and ROTJ). HOWEVER, the other day, while returning rental tapes to a video store, I noticed a sign listing THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK as being available in October. I asked the man at the counter if it'd be only available for rental or for both rental and sale. He said both. I didn't bother to ask what disk formats it would be available in, since I haven't a disk player, but I'd assume that it would be at least on laserdisk. We'll see in October, I guess. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA