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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. They didn't clean it well enough... by Canth7 · · Score: 0, Troll

    because it still looks like Greedo shoots first. Someone really needs to take the original films and clean up the scenes which Lucas has mucked around with so that a decent looking film can be created - of course to be distributed on everyone's favorite sharing app or newsgroups. Lucas might have been a genius at one time but its hard to see that after watching him be so arrogant as to not bother releasing a DVD with both versions so as to appeal to the fan who wants to see the movie as they saw it in the theatres.

  2. Re:dupe by wikinerd · · Score: 0, Troll

    My favourite browser Konqueror renders Slashdot correctly, proving one more time the superior rendering capabilities of KHTML and its technical dominance over IE and Gecko.