A geek and his money are soon parted
Remember the time when you saw a movie, you liked it and you went out and bought the dvd? Well, nowadays there are so many versions coming out that you dont want to look silly buying a movie only to find out there is another newer (or older), better version that is out. For example, remember Sin City? Well, they released the movie on DVD in August and by September, they were advertising a Recut, Extended, Unrated version.
George Lucas (of Star Wars fame) released the original Star Wars Trilogy as a DVD set when he came out with the first prequel. Then he launched the touched up versions of the original movies. Then he released all 6 movies, news one untouched and old ones touched up. Now, he has released the old verion and touched up versions of the old movies together as a DVD set. When will this stop? Amazon has listed all these dvds here
BTW, I still have not bought the Lord of the Rings DVD set. I am waiting for Peter Jackson to make up his mind and release the ‘ULTIMATE VERSION’. So far, we have seen the ‘normal versions‘, ‘Special Extended DVD Editions‘, ‘Widescreen editions‘, ‘Platinum Series Special Extended Edition‘ and the ‘Theatrical and Extended Limited Editions‘ of the LOTR movies.