Not official yet, but I hope this is true. I assume they will go through and clean them up and release them about a month before Episode VII hits. I expected this more or less from the moment Disney bought the movies.
oh no this is gonna make my original unaltered laserdisc less desirable 
Grrr!
Bring them to digital download!!!
Blu-ray, like all other optical media, is dead.
Not possible. 
I wasn’t so pumped about the Blu-ray aspect as I was of HD versions coming out. Does Disney usually release streaming or digital download copies of its movies? If so, this would likely include these. I hope so, anyway.
Why the heck do so many people not realize the laserdisc version was not the last unaltered release? The DVD unaltered release even came from the laserdisc masters.
I sure hope the blurays are anamorphic, though. That’s the one thing the DVD version dropped the ball on.
Argh. I just bought the run-of-the-mill BDs last Christmas.
It’s just a rumour. Disney don’t own the distribution rights to the original Star Wars trilogy, Fox does.
Personally, I’m fine with the Special Editions. In fact the one I prefer was a singular effort by a regular guy calling himself Adywan, where he fixed up errors that I didn’t even know existed, and made everything as perfect as he possibly could. He has included a few elements from both versions, to make an ultimate edition. He’s also almost completed an HD version of The Empire Strikes Back, which has taken him about six years.
I’m fine with my original VHSs. 
Now, where’s my 30-year old VHS player…
Close the blast door!
Bluray isn’t cool anymore? I’m going to just stop trying to keep up.
Unaltered, including all FX cleanup? Squares around ships, and shoulder blobs on the Emperor? Ideally, they would keep all the original content, but cleanup the FX.
Blu-ray is the plaid leisure suit in the back of your closet. Complete with white loafers.
Only in countries with streaming downloads available. You may be surprised to know that this includes about 1% of the world. The US and Japan lead the way, the rest of us are trailing behind pathetically due to lack of infrastructure and Government apathy. We have to get our HD in hard copy form.
Also, many people like having our media in a format that will still be around when they look back at their collections in five years time, something they can still drop into their players and watch at any time. Seems to me that Netflix et al will frequently delete various random items from their catalogues, to return who-knows-if-or-when.
That will change, I’m sure. Eventually the whole world will stream everything, probably, but that time is still a long way off.
But I can touch the plaid leisure suit. I like to touch the suit.
So, streaming would be a fancy beautiful suit made by the same tailors who dressed the Emperor Who Showed His Dong?
This article from io9 explains why it’s most likely a rumor, and will never actually happen. Still, who knows?
Unfortunately for me, the only VHS copies I have of the original versions are pan & scan.
Optical media is pretty much dead - I have a feeling it won’t be long before movies and TV series are released on SDHCs.
My problem with streaming media is, I have yet to see a streaming version of a movie or TV show that had anything besides “just the movie/show” on it (the way things were in the VHS days) - no commentaries, deleted scenes, or other special features.
To clarify, I like to buy my media digitally and own it. These do still come with extras.
I then back it up somewhere and always have it.
However, I hadn’t considered the download ability in other regions.
I could see it:
MouseHouse: “Look, we’ll pay for it. Fox, you keep a (probably decent) percentage of the distribution (no “profit” loopholes, you keep x% of gross) and we’re all happy.”
Fox: (furiously typing numbers into a Casio) (Eyes bug out) “Kewl. Let’s do it.”
Lucas: “But that’s not the right movie! SFX was the movie I wanted to make!!!”
MH and Fox: “Fuck off, oh bearded one. You wanted to keep control? Shouldn’t have the sold the company. Go back to sleep, old man.”
Of course this will happen. All these people saying that Disney CAN’T release it because Fox owns the distribution rights are ignoring that Fox can’t release the unaltered films without Disney’s approval (because Disney owns them now). And the Special Editions are already out on Blu-ray. So the only way for Fox to make more cash is to partner with Disney. And only a fool would think they won’t, because anything is better than nothing.