Cintel

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Cintel International is a company specializing in products for the film post production industry. It was formerly part of the Rank Organisation. Headquarters in Ware, Hertfordshire, UK.

Their main products are:

  • diTTo & dataMill film scanners.
  • Millennium II & DSX telecines.
  • imageMill image processing system, with grain reduction and stabilisation options.

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[edit] History

  • 1927 John Logie Baird founds the Baird Television Company which later becomes Cinema-Television and then Cintel.[1]
  • 1950 The first flying spot telecine is installed at the BBC.
  • TMk1 Polygonal Prism system
  • Mk II Twin Lens
  • Mk III Jump scan
  • MK IIIB Progressive scan and Digiscan
  • Mk IIIC Next generation Digiscan
  • Ursa (1989) 4:2:2 D1 color space output
  • Ursa Gold (1993) 4:4:4 output
  • Ursa Diamond (1997), with many third-party improvements added
  • C-Reality HD and Data
  • DSX telecine HD and Data
  • In 2002 Cintel acquired Innovation TK including the Millennium HD and Data Telecine.


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Eye of the World: John Logie Baird and Television, [1]

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