Star Wars to be Blu-ray Exclusive?

There have been rumors before that the Star Wars trilogies would be appearing on the Blu-ray disc format. But looking at the Amazon.com website it can be seen that there are two pages up for the Blu-ray version of the film trilogies (one for each trilogy) but no equivalent can be found for HD DVD.

There is no current release date for the films and in the availability section it simply says that, "we will e-mail you when this title becomes available". Still if Amazon, of all retailers, have pages up only for the Blu-ray version could they know something we don't?

If it does turns out to be true then Blu-ray and PS3 fans could be celebrating soon as this could be "a catalyst that triggers even larger adoption rates for Blu-ray over HD DVD".

[btkadams]

if star wars is blu ray exclusive....
well you know what im gonna say..

[jahcure]

Well starwars is produced by 20th century fox and well..we know this is one of the exclusive blu-ray supporters.

[LoydX-mas]

But doesn't Lucasfilm have the actual control of the release of these films, not Fox?
If I remember it took FOREVER for the original trilogy to come out on standard DVD.(Because Lucas himself wanted them to be cleaned up)

-I support HD-DVD but this is a series that would make me buy a Blu-ray player!

[Leathersoup]

I've purchased all the starwars I'm going to in my lifetime. Too many versions/formats. I'm done.

[Phlapp]

LOL George Lucas is the Master at selling people something they already have. Stand by for the individual film Blu-Ray releases, then the box set trilogy with 'never before seen' footage, then the Dolby True-HD version, then the Widescreen Dolby True-HD Blu-ray with 'never before seen' footage in a different box then.....

(You get my drift)

[Bigmac573]

teh 360s iz finnishid!

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Seriously, there are other movies besides Star Wars, right?

[Kyur4ThePain]

This has NOTHING to do with the 360, so fu(k off.

[TheExecutive]

i think he was joking... seriously though.

[Leathersoup]

The Xbox 360 is not married to HD-DVD folks. If HD-DVD does not succeed they can always put out a Blu-ray player for it. Seriously. I thought that was one of the better ideas in their design. They weren't forcing a format.

[Why o why]

@Leathersoup How much do you think that will cost ms bruva. suppose they could drop hddvd like they did the 1st xbox

[Leathersoup]

It's a separate piece of hardware. If the HD-DVD format fails altogether, it wouldn't make sense for them to continue making a player for that format, would it.
Designing a Blu-Ray player to function with the Xbox360 wouldn't exactly be a difficult thing to do.

[San anto]

"If HD-DVD does not succeed they can always put out a Blu-ray player for it."

After all the stuff theyve said about blu-ray i cant see them swallowing their pride and come crawling back.

[Phantom_Lee]

Fox = Blue Ray only....
is this even new?

[kmis87]

No.

[Lord Anubis]

well, there's a lot of star wars fans out there. HD version would go well with them. So the studio is FOX?

[shysun]

Im one of those fans.I can't wait for these movies.:)

[ITR]

Um duh!?

Fox is on board with BR.

New content? Probably not. (Unless they include Droids or Ewoks cartoons)

I mean every episode already comes on 2 DVD's.
One for the movie and one for all the extra's.

I have SW on LaserDisc..never owned a player but I like SW stuff.
I still want the VHS copies.

I might buy these just for the hell of it.

Fox where the hell is the SW TV series!???

[tethered]

"Fox where the hell is the SW TV series!???"
Ever heard of "jumping the shark?"

If they ever made a Star Wars TV series it would for sure end all coolness left in the Star Wars realm.

I believe there was an Ewoks TV series at one time. Didn't last long.

Edit:
Crap! I did a quick search and its looking like its in the making.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/...

[ITR]

The TV series is suppose to broadcast at 720p.

I'm still hoping for 3 more movies.

Though I would love a stand alone movie with Boba Fett and the bounty hunters.

[CaliGamer]

What are you looking for specifically because I am looking to get rid of them.

[fenderputty]

I can't wait for them to come out.

[Premonition]

With sony saying they will market the PS3's other features to the adult audiance i dont see why this wont move some systems later on.

[Bathyj]

Also they might have been slow to come to DVD but Fox has said they're not waiting it out this time, They're committed 100% to BR. These movies will look great too since they were all created digitally (1-3).

Who would have thought the Clone Wars would settle the Format Wars. Now hurry up LotR and Matrix, stop dragging it out.

[ITR]

Matrix Trilogy is going HD-DVD.

This is why I want a dual player.

The new Bourne movie is going HD-DVD as well.
Which means thats another trilogy I want on HD-DVD.

[LoydX-mas]

George Lucas controls the release of all his movies, not FOX.
They may want him to release it, but these movies are his to decide when and which format to distribute on.
My guess is that he will wait until this war has been decided

[kmis87]

8.2 I think you're right. Lucas will, by my estimation, wait until the install base is bigger and BDJ 2.0 is finalized so that he can do all the crazy extra features his CGI obsessed brain can dream up.

[ITR]

8.2 your right.

GL will decide when, where, what format and for how much.

Remember how long he waited on the DVD sets of the orig trilogy!?

[drtysouf21]

wanted movies in High Def is Lord Of The Rings!

[tethered]

And that would not be Blu-ray.

yet.

We will see where this goes. A lot of people agree with you on LOTR.

[TheExecutive]

yeah that is a great trilogy... is that coming out on BR?

[drtysouf21]

I have a PS3 for Blu-Ray and X360 with HD-DVD add on!

[kmis87]

LOTR is New Line, which would be dual format.

[LoveHateTragedy]

Yup.

[BlackIceJoe]

I got to say if this is true this will make me happy and would spend over 100 for the movies and am sure that would be for only 4,5 & 6 and not even counting the other three which I only need these three any way. Plus I would love it if would come with both the new SW versions you can buy on DVD's plus the ones you could see at the movie theaters.

Plus if there could be some thing that some people would like to see added I think would have to be Christmas version added but that will never happen.