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Taken from this I, Cringely column on the PBS website, regarding the possibilities of the new MPEG-7 format and its touted ability to make actors obsolete (emphasis mine):
But what about taking, say, the 70-odd episodes of the original "Star Trek" series, extracting all the gestures and expressions of a 35-year-old Captain Kirk, and then using the computer to produce all-new episodes with the original cast? "Sure, we could do it," said Carl Rosendahl, producer of Dreamworks' "Antz," the computer-animated feature. "But it would be expensive, and we'd rather be applying computer technology to doing new things, things that couldn't be done any other way. Though with William Shatner's limited dynamic range, I'm sure that analyzing four or five old episodes would be more than enough."
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But what about taking, say, the 70-odd episodes of the original "Star Trek" series, extracting all the gestures and expressions of a 35-year-old Captain Kirk, and then using the computer to produce all-new episodes with the original cast? "Sure, we could do it," said Carl Rosendahl, producer of Dreamworks' "Antz," the computer-animated feature. "But it would be expensive, and we'd rather be applying computer technology to doing new things, things that couldn't be done any other way. Though with William Shatner's limited dynamic range, I'm sure that analyzing four or five old episodes would be more than enough."
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