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378 Terabytes Of Star Wars on 600 G5s
Mrbill points to this USA Today story on the
digital makeover given to the original Star Wars trilogy, noting that the digitized films have also been converted to HD for later release as high-definition DVDs.
... Lucas to digitally remaster the Star Wars Kid in all his iterations, and sell them on DVD for $50.
But I won't by it until the "Special Edition" comes out in 6 months!
You can now watch your childhood dreams get stomped on ... in HIGH DEFINITION!
Of course. Release the DVDs now. Special edition DVDs next year. Limited Edition DVDs the year after that. Then redo the whole cycle again on high definition DVDs, making it so that people have to buy the trilogy six times, spending a couple hundred bucks.
Well, at least they're not releasing them both individually and as a set with different special features. That would double the number of times it will be released.
...I really hope George Lucas wasn't inspired by my above comment.
Anyone got a torrent?
Kill, Tux, kill!
Scratches and loss of color is not the only degredation to SW that seems to have developed over time. A copy I watched recently seemed to have developed small cute computer animated characters that detracted from the development of suspense in the film..
If they could only digitally remaster Lucas to restore him to his original 1970's form. I'd pay 70 bucks for that.
The office has 80 employees, running 600 networked Power Mac G5. Assuming no bulk discounts, that's about $1.8 million total, or $22,500 per employee. I wish I worked for a company with those resources. Any chance they're running Seti@home when not working on any projects? ;-)
Yeah, but this one comes with a 20 min clip of Lucas pretending to ass rape you for more money. Even better you get he I've been fucked by the Jedi Council bumper sticker too!
So that's how Lucas intends to discourage piracy.
I have to hand it to him; Between not having enough space and bandwidth, and not wanting to see how he's butchered Star Wars this time, I don't think I would bother trying to share the 378TB of video.
I tip my pirate hat to you. Arr.
Can somebody just post a link to the torrent?
I wonder if star wars will eventually be defined as a movie that changes through the years and keeps being packaged and resold? Add a top hat on jar jar one year, a pepsi coke in the hand of the enemy and a coke a cola in the hand of the hero another year, a new previously unreleased scene of chewbacca taking a shit in a bathroom, a year later a "forgotten" or "lost" scene of chewie in the bathroom wiping, etc.
Add a little more as time goes by and make more money.
Plenty of stupid people out there to buy anything.
^ all in my opinion
So now that it's been restored 3 times, had scenes added once and re-edited twice, how many re-releases do you think it will take before it contains no shred of the original film and it becomes a romantic comedy set in a hospital?
So does being done on Apple G5's constitute a washing away of all of lucas' sins, or will they have to burn the hardware in order to keep the contamination from spreding???
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Dear George,
Could you please stop using our computers? You are lame. We are leet.
Thanks.
Steve
I bet if the restoration was done on a beowulf cluster of old amigas running Linux, everyone would start saying Greedo shooting first was the best thing that ever happened to the trilogy...
(Holy Karma-Risk Batman!)
There are two kinds of fool. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.
virtually guaranteeing that the Hans/Greedo controversy will continue. At this rate, soon Hans will not have even shot Greedo. It will turn out that due to a high fat diet and sedentary life-style befitting a rich assasin, Greedo's arteries were clogged full of cholesterol. Hans didn't shoot Greedo, he was dead before he hit the table!!
My other computer is a Jacquard loom.
1) Lucas is a money-grubbing third-rate director.
2) Can they wipe out Jar-Jar?
3) Jar-Jar is not in these episodes, you moron.
4) Who you calling a moron? Lucas is a money-grubbing moron.
5) Why are they doing it on Macs when it is cheaper to do it on Linux?
6) No, it's not. Look at Virginia Tech.
7) Teh MACS suck.
8) Nope, you idiot, M$ sucks.
9) You are all idiots, Lucas sucks.
Nothing else to see here. Move along now.
[Jedi mind-trick a-la Obi Wan]
These aren't the films we're looking for
[/jedi mind trick]
I am the maverick of Slashdot
And the newly enhanced, more humane Stormtroopers will all carry flashlights instead of blasters.
Lucas is not releasing the original trilogy, only the special edition
WHAT!?!? No 5.1 version of the original ending sequence of Return of the Jedi?!?! I am sorely disappointed.
Dear George,
Piss the hell off.
Why for the love of whatever god you pray to, if any, do you feel the constant desire to further destroy this set of films?
Ok, so maybe it wasn't the best acting or the best special effects or whathaveyou, but for the love of god, man, it was an amazing thing at the time which had an amazing effect on a great number of people!
It put my cousin on the road do his job at NASA, it put me into an Aerospace Engineering program!
There's is nothing to be gained by all this revisionist history other than to make you look like a complete money-grubbing idiot!
Greedo shoots first? WTF?!?!?! Next step is walkie-talkies instead of balsters, that's just fantastic.
Please just stop trashing my and many other's childhoods, and please just go away. You've done enough damage. Nearly everyone who used to love you now curses your name, and the once great ILM is a sad shadow of its former glory.
Begone foul demon.
As much as it pains me, I have no choice but to conclude that you are nothing but a no talent, monyey-grubbing hack, with nothing more to give that destructive remakes of great films. So just bite me, you won't see another dollar of mine.
Bastard.
This isn't a troll, it's a heart-felt responce.
Now, when they say 'equivalent of 378 TB' are they talking about a different system of measuring HD space (that only the media use), are they discussing the finer points of the TiB/ TB debate, or is it easier to write 'the equivalent of' rather than 'an approximate total of' ?
None of the above. In truth, it's just a single, fast 100GB drive-- but they use the RIAA's counting methods.
> Go for it George Lucas. Ruin all of your movies.
Howard The Duck, Special Edition!
(although he only produced that, so Maybe...)
Ewoks! Special Edition: Caravan of High-Definition Courage
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
Bizarre... I'm starting to see a connection between Star Wars and Michael Jackson's nose.
If senility was a race, I would win.
YOU stomp on George Lucas' childhood dreams
What are you listening to? (http://megamanic.blogetery.com/)
Lucas is not releasing the original trilogy, only the special edition
And for that he must die.
I saw a fireman once.... That's the closest to my childhood dream.
"This is you left and that's your left. This is your right and that's your right. You're gonna die!
I first saw the unedited, original cut of Star Wars in late 1976, when it consisted of the original reels fresh out of the cameras from the various sets. That was the best version - the definitive version.. I mean, Han shot Gredo fifteen times in subsequent takes.
Damn you to hell, George, for cutting that original 52 hour uncut version! What were you thinking, you butcher!?? Do you think you had the right to cut and change things AFTER THEY WERE FILMED? It's almost as if you had something else in your head about what the films should be, and when the filmed material didn't suit, you cut it and changed it, you bastard, until they fit what you wanted.. how could you? Who do you think you are?
So, I'll be hanging on to my 27 reels of original film, and ignore some new version that's been changed by some idiot who really had nothing to do with the films at all..
Oh my god, that must be real high definition!!
But why the heck do you need 600 G5s to view it?
This "locking viewers in with Apple hardware" bullshit must go!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
stating that every time someone comes out with a re-release of a classic work, they have to include in it the South Park episode where the boys try to stop George Lucas and Steven Speilberg from ruining classic films by trying to "enhance" them. Maybe they could learn a lesson from that :P
Monstar L
I saw your sig and had to post. The power of my UID compels me.
Just wait for the sexology (that's like trilogy but with 6, right?) to come out on a single disc on blu-ray, and save your groats till then.
Nothing costs nothing
I don't think I'll notice the cleans ups or anything - I'm 25 years older also and can't remember what had I had for lunch yesterday.
"Also a pattern of greed has already been established with Episode 1 first coming out on VHS and then, when every true fan that couldn't hold out, because they wanted to see the movie at least a couple times more had purchased it brought out the DVD of the same shit (I will quickly don the asbestos suit and then admit that Episode 1 sucked IMHO). Now do you really need further proof for greed at its lowest?"
That's not greed. Not everyone had DVD players back then, so the VHS release was justified. What wasn't justified was Lucas holding the DVD release of the same film for several months after the VHS release. I consider myself a true fan but I was smart enough to hold out for the DVD release because I've had a player since 97 and know better than to buy anything VHS since then.
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
This doesn't undo his status as "fucking scoundrel". Its not like Lucas had him save a box of kittens from getting eaten by a Hutt. Failing to shoot first is poor reflexes or a lapse in anticipating your enemy's next move, if anything. All we know is:
1. Greedo is a lousy shot
2. Han should have had some coffee or a Red Bull before confronting the little green bastard
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