600 PowerMacs used for 007 Ultimate DVD Collection
Eureka! After all this MacBook/Intel Mac news lately, we finally come across some news about the good ol' faithful PowerMac, or to be more specific: 600 of them. Taking a cue from Microsoft Vista naming conventions, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing a James Bond Ultimate Edition DVD Collection, in which every 007 film has been remastered and digitally enhanced for that oh-so 21st century gleam. The remastering was done by DTS Digital Images using 600 PowerMac G5s, or what I like to refer to as "more PowerMacs than you or I will ever see in a lifetime".
Mike Inchalik, DTS Digital Images vice president of strategy and marketing, stressed the renowned reliability of PowerMacs as a key factor in this undertaking. The company had to process 42 miles of film and scanned each frame at a resolution of 4,000 x 3,000 pixels in preparation of higher-resolution releases in the future. Ultimately, over 700 terabytes of storage were required for the project as each single frame of film is a whopping 45 megabytes. Apple, if you're listening, I think you're gonna have to boost your MacBook Pro hard drive capacities for movie editors. Just a hunch.
Check out the full details on this project's undertaking, as well as some hints at future portable (iPod) video technologies, at Macworld UK.
[thanks Yak!]
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$386 for the set from Amazon. Blu-Ray...hmm. Well I'd need a player. These will work right now.
June 14 2006 at 4:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo I guess the high definition Bond series will be coming out on Blu-ray...
June 13 2006 at 7:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMacBook Pros can't be upgraded by very much, since the largest capacity 2.5" drives are only around 150GB right now. I've got the 100GB 7200RPM drive in my 17", and while it's nice for speed, it really does lack the space to do a full end video operation like the Bond operation requires. But nobody uses laptops for their space capacity. They're for working on a project outside the office.
Or if you're like me, you just leave the main storage at home, and use the nearest Starbucks as the office. Gotta love mobility.
Quite the "Rig of the day"!
June 13 2006 at 4:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyhaha, whatever next - Sony with there own video editing booth soft/hardware using g5s to remaster films and Microsoft using them as xbox 360 development platforms. cant blame them, my dual 2.7 is amazing and i love it (maya /final cut user) but im starting to get excited about the woodcrest power
June 13 2006 at 3:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDTS Digital Images was featured on Australian TV's Beyond Tomorrow, a continuation of the popular Beyond 2000 series. It airs on The Science Channel in the US. The show toured their facilities and featured their server room in most of the shots. I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that it looked like three walls of perforated metal with small lights every few inches. They have those puppies packed in. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
One of the more interesting things I took from that show was that they have all the machines linked in such a way that it distributes the load so that each machine gets one frame at a time, so that it handles 600 frames at once. And it all appeared to be controlled by a Sawtooth G4. Genius stuff.
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