Star Wars Fans everywhere should be getting really excited. The 2 trilogies will be released in a BluRay box set in 2011. George Lucas has confirmed this, as well as letting fans know that the new box set will also include a lot of deleted scenes from both the new trilogy and the old. The official release date and price have not yet been announced, but it’s expected that it will be released sometime in the first half of 2011.

George Lucas hinted that the price on the 2 Star War Trilogies will be quite high, “You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally. It’s a very, very expensive process to do it. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version. We’ve been wanting to do it as soon as we possibly could, but we just wanted to do it when enough people would be able to buy it and see it. We’ve been working on them for quite a while, but still, there are pipelines. Unfortunately, the recent releases get priority over what we call the classic versions of things.”

The quality of the original trilogy will not be up to BluRay standards that we are used to seeing, since the original film is not very high quality itself. However, you will certainly notice enhancements in the digital version, as you do when any old movie is transferred to BluRay.