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Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-the-heck-not dept.

bfl writes "The BBC is running a story about Lowry Digital Images and how they used 600 dual G5s and 400 TB of storage space to clean the dirt off of the old Star Wars reels, and upgrade the resolution to get them ready for their DVD release."

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  1. Re:dupe by Lispy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That would mean touching the Slashcode and I guess we will see a few more DVD releases of Starwars before there will be a "Slashdot Special Edition" that also renders fine in Firefox.

  2. Re:600 G5s and the lightsabers were broken. by polecat_redux · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Seriously, if you're going to devote that kind of hardware to a restoration, why can't you be bothered to pay a guy to airbrush the lightsabers in rather than use the blurred crap that was the result of the cleanup? The lightsabers (in order to look good onscreen) need a white core with a coloured edge.

    Because just like the Macs themselves, it doesn't matter what's at the core as long as the outside is pretty.