Star Wars: The Complete Saga (9 Discs) (Blu-ray)

After months of waiting for this release I finally got it through the door this morning. Firstly the packaging. The cover has lovely artwork as you can see in the picture. Box is finished well and sturdy. The inside compartment opens up to reveal a beautiful hinged stack holding each disc finished in blu ray blue. There's a film cell (mine was from Episode 3 during the Obi Wan/Anakin fight). There's also a 'guide to the galaxy' with some lovely artwork in.

As for the movies themselves, totally amazing. Everything in full HD with ear drum perforating sound. I ran it on a Samsung UE55D8000 with a Onkyo TX-NR509 linked up to a set of Tannoy HTS-101s. The sound was insane. Even shouting to my mum sat next to me she couldn't hear me! The opening scene of Ep 4 just took my breath away. Gorgeous visuals but the blasts and noise from the engines shook the whole room, it was like I was there!

The pod race scene was impressive too with great surround sound responses and massive hard hitting sub impacts in the right places. Visuals were beautiful with deep rich colours and crystal detail.

If you're a Star Wars fan, this should be top of you 'I want' list.

I'm a huge Star Wars fan, I saw the originals on TV when I was a kid. Yes, Lucas has tinkered with them again. We didn't expect him not to as he's done it with every release. Though once the moment has passed you may or may not move past it. I think I managed to as I was gazed at what was happening on screen next. Perfect picture quality, stunning. My hat's off to them for making the originals look this good. They amped the sound up to 6.1 DTS-HD-MA and 5.1 Dolby Digital. If you have a great external sound setup with a beefy subwoofer it's the perfect way to enjoy this saga. Some might not be able to swallow what Lucas has done to the fans. I myself haven't, it still gets caught going down, but Star Wars has never looked and sounded this amazing. It will blow you away.

Got the blu ray set a couple of days ago, impressive picture and sound quality. Discs tale a little long to load but can live with that, Case is good and sturdy despite the naff image on it.

But for all the good there is with this set there is also the bad and most of them come in the form of the Tinker mans many changes.

Episode I - A new CGI yoda replaces the puppet in the original version, looks good and fits in nice with episodes II & III

Episode II & III - not noticed any changes in these yet.

Episode IV - Additional rocks added to hide R2 from the Sand People, the big question is Why and was it really needed. New dragon cry from Obi Wan when he first appears again Why? and Just to please the fans Han shoots first not Greedo.

Episode V - Missing Diaglogue when Leia says "I'd rather kiss a wookie" Han replied "I can arrange that, he could use a good kiss" well now you can scrub that last part.

Episode Vi - New door to Jabba's palace along with battle marks, added tie fighters as well as tie interceptors in the Death Star battle and Blinking Ewoks. Okay we can live with them however Darth Vader shouting NOOOOOO as he picks up the Emperor just sounds awful.

As with the DVD releases I am sure that Lucas in 2 years time will announce the Original Theatrical Versions available for a Limited Time Only (which for the DVDs that limited time was about 5 years)

Thats me done with star wars now, I brought The Original Trilogy on VHS, the Special Editions on VHS, The Phantom Menace on VHS, The Star Wars Trilogy (4 disc set) on DVD, all the prequels separetly on DVD, The so call Limited Editions of the Original Theatrical Versions on DVD and now the Blu-Ray Complete Saga.

A lot has been said already about it being the enhanced version not the original, i have to agree that some of the added bits are silly like the creature walking acros the famous " these aren't the droids you are looking for scene " but that aside the box set is amazing and great value too when you think its only 11 quid a film.

i won't comment on which ones are the best transfers as mine isnt the greatest 1080i tv but they are all excellent and far outshine the dvd versions. The sound quality is awesome ( especially through bose headphones)

Superb and well worth the wait. shame you don't get a " cut out jaja binks " option, would have paid extra for that !!

spectacular in every sense of the word. if you want to own something on blu ray- own this!