Best DVD or Blu-Ray Box set?

I have three differents VHS tapes of the OT: 1995, 1997 SE and one released in 2000 I guess. I also have the TPM's VHS from 1999.

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And DVD I just have this edition for OT, the only one I reallly need because of the original releases without any modification and the PT movies released separated.

 

I definitely agree that the LotR Extended Edition Blu-Ray set is very impressive. I do wish the Appendices were up-converted or something, though. But they're all DVD's...

The Blu-Ray Complete Saga set is, of course, my favorite, being the first, and only original/additive, release on Blu-Ray so far. I'll try to buy the next 'additive' release's bonus disc if they have them. The bonus disc from the original DVD release, with Empire of Dreams, is definitely a great companion to the Blu Ray set. I have high hoprd that the ST releases have strong BTS/making-of material with them as well. The PT DVD's also havedecent BTS features.

 

Well, as far as sets in general, it's remarkably bare-bones but my favorite memory of a box-set for Star Wars is that of the VHS version released in the mid 90s. I watched the hell out of that thing (still have it in storage too).



(and yes, I think that was a full-screen version, heh...)

As to the release I enjoy the most, it would be the 'Complete Saga' Blu-Ray release, because it's simply the best looking version we have to date, though I'm not without my gripes on it. Mainly my issue is with the menus and the arrangement of the extras, seeming incredibly slow and at many points counter-intuitive. Otherwise I'm pleased with it and the extras that are offered... unless I'm confusing myself with what was offered with the earlier DVD box set -- which I seem to remember having more fluid access to the special features.

Still, I can only say that the Blu-Ray 'Complete Saga' box set is the best box set we have thus far. Like you, I'm waiting and hoping for a release that includes some form of the originals. And man, I read "2020" up there and then realized that is just 5 years away... I think back to my youth when years like 1997 were set as the future periods for sci-fi films.


As for other franchise box sets, I definitely agree with you on the LOTR series' extended edition sets. I'm a Tolkien-head and even those have more information than I'd think to look up, both in regards to the film and the stories. Plus they have the mock-book look to boot.