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378 Terabytes Of Star Wars on 600 G5s

Posted by timothy on from the more-princess-more-anakin dept.

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.

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  1. Great! by Fnkmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can now watch your childhood dreams get stomped on ... in HIGH DEFINITION!

    1. Re:Great! by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Now I have become a corporation, the very thing I was against." - George Lucas

      He's gone over to the dark side.

      KFG

    2. Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Does that mean in a few years his son will come back to kill him and he'll see the light and finally release the originals?

  2. Ah by iamdrscience · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Ah by jeffkjo1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

      Star Wars HD: The Search For More Money.

  3. Speaking of degredation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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..

  4. Now.. by Laimbrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they could only digitally remaster Lucas to restore him to his original 1970's form. I'd pay 70 bucks for that.

  5. Oho by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. I wonder... by Johnny+Fusion · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
  7. The HD Master Being Kept in Storage... by Class+Act+Dynamo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
  8. The saga on /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Quick summary of posts to follow:

    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.

  9. Re:Links! by hype7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Star Wars, terrabytes, and lots of G5s, all posted on /.

    the porn sites are going to have a bad day today

    -- james