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All they really need to do is to give the prints to Turner.

I t6hink they are basically doing the same thing but extracting the original colour from vestigial chroma signals, rather than using what some artist thinks the colours were like..

All they really need to do is to give the prints to Turner.

Perhaps this would do:

http://www.reelclassics.com/Audio_Video/Music7q/cl ips/wizoz_dingdongdead.wav

rj

It is about providing an environment copyright holders can trust you to have.

Yep

Nothing, but nothing will ever beat the real thing: Three Strip Technicolor.

Sometimes real "stuff" is better than bits and pixels.

Here's a link to a Forbidden Planet site, where they have a series of photos, one or two showing the vast power source beneath the surface of Altair IV, the "Forbidden Planet".

A setup like that is where the "100,000 times the energy" might come from. The actor who explained the power setup was Walter Pidgeon.

At that link they have movie posters and storyline on Forbidden Planet. I saw the movie when it was current in 1956, and we really believed in that vast power source after Dr. Moribus explained it to the movie audience! If you have not seen this movie, go rent it, it's great.

So, with a little luck, the new extremely fast processor will be a reality before long...BTW, here's a link to a new Hitachi 1000 GB hard drive that is now being tested, using a new twist on storage technology. Can't wait. (Isn't science fiction/fact wonderful?)

Great, all we need is Ted Turner to have an easier time colorizing old films and not releasing the originals.

Here's an example of a small star that is smaller than a planet. Any astronomer knows that...

you just killed Danny Kay

The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!

This is like Bill Gates bemoaning monopolistic business practices in the software industry.

NO This is like Bill Gates saying "Microsoft should be broken up to prevent it's detrimental impact on the software market that sifles small business growth." I, for one, would stand up and cheer if Bill Gates said that, but we all know he's not man enough to do the right thing.

PLEASE, let's not pummel this guy for a) doing the right thing b) doing it in a way that will hurt his interestes and c) for his move toward colorizing movies almost 20 YEARS ago

Then RKO's master plan will come true!

"After all... tomorrow is another day" Scarlett O'Hara

What a coincidence!. It looks like Dean Kamen's company was working on just such a thing!

Okay, now to turn off the sarcasm (sorry, I couldn't resist) - Kamen was working on the just-approved product called iBot for quite some time. It was the "Fred" to Segway's "Ginger" (after legendary film dance pair Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), and was in the FDA approval process for quite some time before being approved earlier this year as a medical device. iBot can maneuver disabled humans in an upright position, navigate stairs, and handle terrain that would stymie conventional wheelchairs. I believe they cost around $20k - they're being sold commercially through a Johnson & Johnson division.

It's known that Kamen is working on a Stirling Engine variant. There's been a lot of speculation that it's being developed as a power source for a Segway 2.0-type device. A Stirling power source could seriously improve the range of a Segway and make it a much more practical means of travel.

Lately, kind sir, I have been quite perturbed by certain events that have been proliferating in our society. Was it not so long ago, that in more civilized times, children respected and obeyed their parents, under the threat of a firm thrashing if their impudence and audacity got out of hand? But oh, kind father, the trials that parents today must suffer! Not just the other day, whist I was dining upon a fresh garden salad, my daughter, of not even 6 years old, insisted upon uprooting most unrest in requesting I purchase for her a milky-way bar! I quickly remarked to the impudent creature that one of our many servants would be more than willing to carriage her to the local general store; but no! she insisted that I -personally- drive the buggy to make the purchase! Oh wise man of God, what is a poor woman to do in these hard times! Before you can open your Moses-lovin' mouth Pastor, I have proposed a final solution to the problem of "youthful indiscretion"- Prison Labor!

Before you bring up cries of protest from your liberalism-saturated mind, hear me out! Our disrespectful children will learn the true meaning of honor and sacrifice while they're hard at work pounding license plates and assembling adding machines! Honestly, what better way is there to whip our children into shape? Scare them with threats of the boogey-man? Psh-haw! Just look at the wondrous effects prison labor had on the Dell kid! Not only will prison labor harden our children into obedient automatons, it will show them the reality they will have to face if they follow their current paths and become criminals!

Thank you for your attention kind Minister, and God-Bless!

What happens when it is time to turn it off