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Lowry Digital Imaging is a digital film restoration company founded in 1988 by John D. Lowry and based in Burbank, California. Lowry gained industry recognition in the 1971 for his computer-based proprietary algorithms used in the restoration of the NASA Apollo missions 16 and 17 films. The company is now one of the most well-respected in the world, business blooming with the rise in popularity of DVDs. DTS, Inc. purchased the company on January 6, 2005. As of 15 December 2006, LDI has 700 Apple Power Mac G5s, a server bay with 700 terabytes of storage and 2 $300,000 digital film scanners.

Lowry describes the restoration process as overcoming three obstacles: wear and tear, age, and multiple generations of optical copies. Each frame is scanned into a high-resolution digital format, where the computer first checks for standard problems like size alterations or jitter. Then the files go through the lab's render farm for speck removal, which is then eye-checked frame-by-frame. The system works natively in 32-bit floating point, can process any format like HD and 4K, and outputs to a pristine digital master. Lowry software is also used to minimize grain in image quality, even in modern major motion-picture releases like Miami Vice and Zodiac.

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