Lowry Digital Makes High Definition DVD Restorations with Power Mac G5s

1999–2004April 19, 2004Macs Only!Peripherals
, 600 of them according to this NYT article on Excite News. The G5's have a total of 2400 GB of RAM. Lowry scans aging celluloid film images at 4,000 lines per image frame rather than the norm of 480 to 2,000. For comparison, high definition TV has just 1080 lines per image. [Dana Baggett]

-- Weekend, April 17-18 --

[Update 12:30a EDT 4/18] New NVIDIA 6800 Ultra Graphics Kicks the ATI Radeon 9800 XT's Butt in two early reviews. Last Friday we reported on NVIDIA's event releasing their new ATI-killer graphics card. In terms of visual quality involving anti-aliasing (removing jaggies) and anisotropic filtering (detailing) ATi has been king, but the new-yet-to-be-released NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra reference card has caught up to ATI's top dog, the Radeon 9800 XT, and surpassed it in some ways. In terms of speed for 3D gaming, the GeForce 6800 Ultra cleaned the Radeon XT's clock by a substantial margin in virtually every comparison.

Of course, the reviews (here and here) are based on PCs running Windows XP, mostly with Microsoft DirectX 9.0c APIs but some with OpenGL, since there is no Mac version of the GeForce 6800 yet. There's not even a Mac version of NVIDIA's previous top performer, the GeForce 5950 Ultra, only the previous generation GeForce4 Ti 4600. Heck, we're still waiting for the long-ago announced 256 MB version of the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Special Edition. But the reviews indicate what might be in store for the Mac at the next upgrade of the top-end Power Mac G5.

The other shoe has yet drop--ATI has the X800 under development and we may hear more about it now that NVIDIA has released the GeForce 6800 Ultra.

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