Yay, the first Star Wars trilogy is finally slated to be released on DVD later this year. About damn time. There’s been a lot of speculation about why it’s been delayed so long; the official party line is that they just didn’t have time to work on it while the new movies were in production, but it’s also entirely possible Lucas just wanted to keep building and building anticipation in order to milk the initial release for as much money as possible. Whatever, it’ll be irrelevant soon enough.
The set will be the Special Editions of the movies, but I’m not really enough of a purist to care *too* much. The ultra-purists probably already have the bootleg DVDs/rips going around anyway.