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Updated: Phantom Menace DVD Release

Posted by Hemos on from the not-goin'-do-it dept.

LTB writes "Regarding your story about the Phantom Menace DVD release - an update has been posted at aintitcool with news to the contrary. Sorry guys, If it's too good to be true... "

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  1. Okay, here it comes. by Accipiter · · Score: 5
    To all you people who are so mad about this "sudden change of events" (cough)...

    Don't you DARE complain.

    I predicted this roller coaster. While all this hype over a possible DVD is brewing, it's keeping interest in TPM alive. So people throw out a rumor here....a rebuttal there. The main point is: Nobody Cares! Okay, so if a DVD comes out all you Star Wars fanatics can roll in delight, and talk about how Great it is. If no DVD comes out, you can roll in despair and talk about how great it would have been. Then you can fall back on VHS.

    George Lucas is laughing his ass off. He knows what's going on, and he knows it means one thing: MORE MONEY. For every statement that denies that a DVD will come out, X amount of people say "Screw it, I'll just buy the tape." Then another article comes out, and another rebutes THAT one. Then X MORE people buy the tape. the process repeats about 20 or so times, and then the hype dies down. When the hype dies down, there would be only one thing left to do:

    Release the standard DVD.

    Then, he'll start the whole process over again with the promise of a "Special Edition" DVD. (Or hell, maybe he'll release a "Special Edition" VHS, ride the hype coaster one more time, THEN release the "Special Edition" DVD.)

    -- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?

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  2. What the hell is wrong with you people???! by Pope · · Score: 5

    The so-called update (above) is from SUNDAY, ie BEFORE yesterdays statements.
    Not only is this NOT an update, it renders this entire discussion moot, since Lucas claimed that on Monday or Tuesday that he's going to release.

    I hereby call for slashdot to NEVER get their stories from AICN ever again.

    Pope

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    It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
  3. Only the video industry by Valdrax · · Score: 5
    I quote the ever wonderful Anime on DVD in reference to the Maison Ikkoku controversy:

    "Much like the Star Wars discussions on its lack of DVD, this is another one that always gets a chuckle in my mind. How many other products do you have where the customer is practically throwing their money at the company and the company doesn't release the product. Only the video industry..."

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    If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
  4. Please.... by pmodz · · Score: 5

    So now the rumor is rumored not to be true.

  5. ReCSS!!! by G+Neric · · Score: 5
    does anybody know if we could use DeCSS to put it onto a DVD?

    MPAA couldn't possibly stop us: how would it look in court? "Yes, your honor, we're suing these guys for taking it off a DVD, and we're suing these guys for putting it onto a DVD. We hate everybody."