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Rodriguez uses Linux to Edge out ILM

An anonymous reader writes "A Linux device helped legendary independent filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and others) win the race with ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) to create the first movie ever to use a digital format supporting full-bandwidth RGB. Rodriguez's Sin City, which opens April 1, was shot in Dual Link, or "4:4:4" format, and transferred between tapes and hard drives using SpectSoft's Linux-based RaveHD DDR (digital disk recorder)."

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  1. In contrast with shitty movie makers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hear George Lucas uses Outlook Express. Or rather, he has his assistant use it, and read the messages to him. He doesn't even know how to check his email.

  2. Re:Are ILM relavent today ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    You've managed to cram so many mistakes in your comment that I think astronomers in other galaxies will eventually see your post.


    First of all, it's spelled "relevant". You should capitalize the first letter of the first word of your sentences. See that key labelled "Shift" on your keyboard? You press that AT THE SAME TIME as the letter you want to capitalize! Amazing, huh!? They even had those in the 80s!


    When you use the word "they", you are referring to several people, so it's a plural. You should use "they were", not "they was"! That's basic stuff!


    There's no such construction as "would of", it makes no sense, perhaps you meant "would have"? Oh, and the end of every sentence needs a little dot called a "period". I know, I know, there's just SO MANY keys on your keyboard, it's all so confusing!


    Ugh, you're probably 12 years old, you still have time to learn.

  3. He's a Mexi-can by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    El, you really must try this because it's full bandwidth RGB. It's creates slow-roasted effects, nothing fancy. It just happens to be my favorite, and I watch them in every dive theatre I go to in this country. And honestly, that is the best it's ever been anywhere. In fact, it's too good. It's so good that when I'm finished, I'll dump my popcorn, walk straight into the projection room and shoot the projectionist. Because that's what I do. I restore the balance to this country.

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    1. Re:look at me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      I'm wasting space on /.!
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  5. Re:Are ILM relavent today ? by cloak42 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I find this rather funny, especially because you had a number of mistakes in your own comment.

    First off, it's "80's", not "80s".

    Secondly, the first sentence in your fourth paragraph is wrong; it's a run-on sentence. You needed to write it like this: "There's no such construction as 'would of'; it makes no sense. Perhaps you meant 'would have'?"

    That last sentence was incorrect, too; IT should have been "Ugh, you're probably 12 years old; you still have time to learn."

    I suppose your post would've been much funnier if you weren't being so hypocritical.

  6. Re:Are ILM relavent today ? by nunchux · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jeez, can't a person speak his mind, even if he has bad grammer and not be persecuted... It's "Jesus", or "Gee Whiz", not Jeez. Jeez isn't a word.

  7. Re:Wonder if... by Seumas · · Score: 0, Troll

    Robert Rodriguez has come a long way since his days of stand-up comedy and his roles as the spanish immigrant in Cheech and Chong.

  8. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's a very handsome maaan. "Click for larger what?"

  9. Re:RGB-B&W by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually you are just seeing the Red channel. He's releasing it in three parts, part two will be the Blue channel and part three will be the Yellow channel. He wanted to be the first person in history to release the separations separately. There's talk of a full color version for the DVD. Tarentino is pissed off because he didn't think of it first.