Do I? Don’t I?

The Bond Ultimate Collection. Saw it in HMV for $3.5k.

Scrutinizing 42 miles of film. Digitally removing 37 million pieces of dirt, and 74,000 ‘hairs in the gate’. It’s not a job that would suit everyone. But John Lowry, former NASA film restorer and founder of Lowry Digital Images, was in his element restoring the James Bond films for the Ultimate DVD Collection, a two and a half year process requiring 600 Apple computers with a combined storage capacity of 700 terabytes (700 million megabytes). “This is true frame-by-frame digital restoration,” says Lowry. “And when you have 42 miles of film, there’s a lot of film to clean up.”

DVDs commonly have a resolution of 720 pixels across and 576 high, making a total of 414,720 pixels. Lowry scanned the films at a resolution of 4000 pixels across by 3000 pixels high, for a total of 1.2 million pixels - almost three times the resolution of a normal DVD, “so there’s a lot more information, which means that from these new scans you can make fabulous images.” Each frame, Lowry adds, is 45 megabytes - so don’t expect to fit much of a movie on a top-of-the-range iPod.

I think that should read 12 million pixels.

It does come in a case.

Hmmmm, thing is, If they have it at 4k x 3k, then surely they will release an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray version soon?

Update: actually only $2649 in HMV. Sooooo .. I got it. 41 hours of Bond.

V: “Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished; a vital voice once venerated, now vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation now stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violent, vicious, and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta, held as votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and virtuous. Yet verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my great honor to meet you, and you may call me V.”

E: Are you like a crazy person?

Loved it.

Lots of use of the word bollocks, and wait until you see what Natalie Portman wears in one scene!

I love them.

I’m trying to put together a list for each day of Advent. Need 24. So far I have:

It’s a Wonderful Life
The Polar Express
Miracle on 34th Street
Scrooged
The Night They Saved Christmas
Die Hard (love the Run DMC tune at the start)
White Christmas
The Santa Clause
All I Want For Christmas
Santa Clause The Movie
Family Man
Blackadder’s Christmas Carol
Home Alone
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
One Magic Christmas
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

I either have these already, or will be poppoing to a DVD shop before Dec. to get.

Any other top tips?