Eureka! After all this MacBook/Intel Mac news lately, we finally come acro some news about the good ol' faithful PowerMac, or to be more ecific: 600 of them. Taking a cue from Microsoft Vista naming conventio , 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, stre ed the renowned reliability of PowerMacs as a key factor in this undertaking. The company had to proce 42 miles of film and sca ed 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 who ing 45 megabytes. A le, if you're listening, I think you're go a 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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