Use the Mac, Luke...

As the original Star Wars trilogy comes out on DVD today, many fans will notice image clarity unsurpassed by any previous home video release of the enormously popular movies. Such pristine images are the result of four years of work by Lowry Digital. Lowry put 600 dual processor Power Mac G5 computers to work scrubbing every frame of the films, removing dirt, deterioration and other damage and ending up with transfers "nearly as good as the director and cinematographer were seeing when they shot the movie," according to company owner John Lowry.