Rings Digital Dailies Circled Globe via iPod

KD writes "During the making of the 'Rings' trilogy, Jackson and his crew upped the ante on Apple's innovative iPod storage technology, using it for filmmaking sessions during production on The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Media was transferred from Weta to Pinewood Studios in London. There Jackson then viewed the QuickTime files on an Apple Cinema Display, tied to his G4 laptop, which drew directly from his iPod. The director's setup was mirrored in New Zealand, and crew could step through shots with the help of their iPods, with Jackson's guidance piped in over a videoconferencing system. During the course of two movies and four months, 'Rings' iPods stored and served up nearly one-half terabyte of digitized footage from 'Towers' and 'King.'"

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Re:Seems to me pretty stupid too

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Of course, seein' the usual "even a fart smells sweet if it's got the Apple logo" crowd on Slashdot

LOL! You really hit the nail on the head there. I'm amazed that a Linux company owns Slashdot and not Apple themselves, there's so much pro-Mac / anti-Linux propaganda here. What kind of business plan does Taco and friends *have*? The entire "resurgence" of Apple lately is due to word-of-mouth and sales pitches from "the hardcore Linux geeks" of Slashdot.

I am definitely a Macintosh lover, but a lot of what I read on /. is pure crap intended to move units. No kidding. There's a LOT of outright lies, white lies, halftruths, propaganda, deceit, sales pitches, and astroturfing here. Caveat emptor. Macs are very cool, but I'm sorry, you won't plug into GarageBand and a week later find yourself getting job offers from Eric Clapton. Remember, Apple is an advertising company who also makes computers. They're not selling computers, they're selling image. That's why people plugging into each other's Rio's doesn't make the /. front page, but people plugging into each other's iPods does. Jackson uses an iPod to carry data, that's COOL. I use a 320 Gig external harddrive, I'm apparently NOT cool. But I got the better deal price/performance-wise, one that every real computer expert would agree on the utility and wisdom of.

I'm sorry, I think Macs make cool hardware and software, but this smells like astroturfing at the highest level.