First thoughts on the Blu-ray release? I don't care. At all. TOTAL apathy. I'm totally apathetic about Blu-ray period, actually. AFAIK the only difference between Blu-ray and DVD is OMG BETTER SOUND AND PICTURE OMFG! And, well...I've got no real problem with DVD. I've got no real problem with my non-special-edition, letterbox collector's OT on laserdisc. I can see that DVD (in general, not SW...) has an advantage over LD. They're smaller, take up less space, you can have bilingual tracks if the language of the movie and the language of your country isn't the same, you can see special features like the trailer, and you don't have to change disks mid-movie. They don't wear out like VHS and you don't have the risk of the VCR eating them... But I fail to see any difference between DVD and Blu-ray that matters to someone like me, who watches movies for the story, and doesn't really care how big your explosion is. So I won't be buying SW on Blu-ray and as long as there are still more DVDs than Blu-ray discs at the video store, I won't be buying a player either. So really, it doesn't affect me AT ALL.

I don't really remember the way Yoda originally looked in TPM. I haven't seen any of the PT since they left theaters. But I did watch that clip with the two side-by-side...and I fail to see how the CG Yoda is an improvement. I'm not even going to watch that ROTJ clip after reading the description.

It makes me sad that a whole generation (at least, those whose parents don't care enough to bring them up on the ORIGINAL OT despite the inconvenience) will never see the beautiful films that ANH, ESB, and ROTJ once were. But as far as me and my family...*shrug* I've got the laserdiscs and a couple of DVD backup copies, I'm good to go (and willing to copy for anyone else who wants them and doesn't mind unremovable Japanese subtitles...)