Rumor: Star Wars to become a Blu-Ray exclusive?

There have been rumors about it before, but it’s only now that an evidence of sorts has surfaced regarding the matter. The rumors were basically about what the format of the 30th anniversary edition of “Star Wars” was going to be – Blu-ray or HD DVD? For those on the Blu-ray side of the argument, here’s a little something for you: WesleyTech.com reports that Amazon has product pages up for BOTH trilogies in the Blu-ray disc format.

The first and second “Star Wars” trilogies each have its own product page on Amazon.com. Each has the current status of “we will e-mail you when this title becomes available”. Below are screens of the listings:

Star Wars for Blu-ray - Image 1Star Wars for Blu-ray - Image 2

Is this the Blu-ray format showing some muscle, or is this fallout from that whole HD-DVD security hullaballoo? Given the loyalty of Star Wars fans, will this cause larger adoption rates for Blu-ray over HD-DVD? Will this help position the PlayStation 3 as a cheap Blu-ray player? Given that nothing’s confirmed “officially”, we’ll have to wait a bit to see how this shapes up.

There have been rumors about it before, but it’s only now that an evidence of sorts has surfaced regarding the matter. The rumors were basically about what the format of the 30th anniversary edition of “Star Wars” was going to be – Blu-ray or HD DVD? For those on the Blu-ray side of the argument, here’s a little something for you: WesleyTech.com reports that Amazon has product pages up for BOTH trilogies in the Blu-ray disc format.

The first and second “Star Wars” trilogies each have its own product page on Amazon.com. Each has the current status of “we will e-mail you when this title becomes available”. Below are screens of the listings:

Star Wars for Blu-ray - Image 1Star Wars for Blu-ray - Image 2

Is this the Blu-ray format showing some muscle, or is this fallout from that whole HD-DVD security hullaballoo? Given the loyalty of Star Wars fans, will this cause larger adoption rates for Blu-ray over HD-DVD? Will this help position the PlayStation 3 as a cheap Blu-ray player? Given that nothing’s confirmed “officially”, we’ll have to wait a bit to see how this shapes up.

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