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[edit] Use in movies

I have not heard anything about Quantel products being used in modern movies (Last I heard, the opening title sequence from Goldeneye was made with Quantel Domino. I heard more about Shake being used in Lord of the Rings. And I thought Sin City was produced with all off-the-shelf software. Can someone back up this Quantel claim? --Navstar 18:27, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Have a look at the film showcase on the Quantel website: http://www.quantel.com/site/en.nsf/HTML/filmlist?OpenDocument I will remove the 'citation needed' next to film list--BackStagePass 07:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I've added the references to a references section - but the Lotus Notes document in question doesn't mention Lord of the Rings. Megapixie 07:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Effect Systems Ltd

Any one know the exact year that Effect Systems took over support of legacy products. Was it 2002? --BackStagePass 18:46, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean up 31st October 2006 by Fourohfour

Nice work on the clean up :-) My only query re-reading what I wrote about Domino being a 'first' as Kodak had a similar product around that time. Needs more research to confirm or not if Quantel was first. --BackStagePass 14:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

After doing some inital research it looks like Domino and Kodak Cineon were launched in the same year so not sure if Quantel should be a 'first' ???--BackStagePass 14:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks; actually, if you look at what I did, you'll see that there was little actual correction or rewriting per se. All I did was move related paragraphs/sections together and put in more headings. I'm surprised how often this makes an apparently longwinded, overly-detailed article into something much better looking and more accessible.
Anyway, what I'm saying is that I didn't really change or add any content. The "historical firsts" heading merely reflected what the article itself already claimed. Whether that's right or not, I don't know. Fourohfour 15:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Was more questioning my own addition of Domino to 'firsts'. A colleague of mine worked for Quantel, will ask him if he has more info on Domino with relation to the Kodak Cineon.--BackStagePass 01:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Double checked with an ex Quantel employee and Kodak Cineon came before Domino so will remove it from 'firsts'. --BackStagePass 21:43, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quantel Product Time Line - early omissions

Hi

I think that the beginning of the Quantel Time-line is incomplete. Following from this, the statement :- "Quantel's first product. The DFS 3000 digital frame store synchroniser introduced in 1975" is therefore in error.

I believe that Quantel was involved in producing products before the Taylor / Kellar era. The products were Timebase Correctors based around a line store (as opposed to a frame store).

I am hazy as to the time that these products first appeared, but they must, naturally, have been produced between the formation of the company and the release of the DFS 3000 frame store synchroniser.

To complicate matters a bit, at least some of the line based Timebase Correctors were produced in association with ( or for ?) a company called IVC. The machines were denoted as "2000 series" . The fact that Quantel marketed these machines themselves is witnessed by the fact that a picture of one (in Quantel livery of the time) appears in the book Video Techniques By Gordon White ISBN -408-00506-8 (1982) Pg 184 Fig 7.17 "Quantel TBC".

A bit of a "Google" found the paragraph below to support my memory that some of the machines were produced for / marketed by IVC :-


"A series of timebase correctors were available for these machines. The IVC 4102 was an analog timebase corrector that used variable delay lines like quad. Quantel developed two TBC's specifically for use with these machines. There seems to be some numbering nomenclature confusion with these. One model number I was given was the IVC 2001. Other numbers include TBC 2000 (Direct color only) and TBC 2200 (Direct and hetrodyne color). Although these were primarily designed for use with the 900 series, a modification board was available to allow full performance, with digital dropout compensation, on the 800 series machines. "

REF: http://www.lionlamb.us/quad/ivc.html

(see paragraph "IVC 1 Inch Machines").

I'll try and find out some more information from a guy I know who was involved with the management of the company at that time. Naturally, at this time ultimate financial control of the company was by Peter Michael, but I'd like to add the names of the contemporary Quantel R&D and Middle Management.

Would certainly be interested in pre DFS 3000 history. Timeline was mostly based on Quantel's 'official' one as we did not have any more info to go on pre 3000. BackStagePass (talk) 14:43, 22 May 2008 (UTC)


Hi

I have now added what I know / have found out to the main page :-

Added a new section to the front of the "Quantel Firsts" section and changed the name to "History" I haven't touched the "Firsts" part, it has just moved down a bit.

Edited the text to remove the "first product" part on the DFS 300 caption.

Added TBC 2000 to the time line. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blitheringidiot (talk • contribs) 11:29, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Have cleaned up the pre DFS 3000 history to be more Wikipedia like. Quite a big edit if you compare the two but does not lose any of the info in original. You mentioned that Neil Hinson resigned in January 2008, is there anymore info on a replacement? I am a customer of Quantel's kit as apposed to having any great insite into Quantel from the inside. BackStagePass (talk) 00:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not a Quantel employee, so I don't know what is being discussed within the company, or who (if anyone) is currently "acting" as R&D Director. As far as I'm aware, there has been no public announcement of a replacement.

The information that Neil had resigned, and the actual date of his resignation, came from the newly released public accounts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blitheringidiot (talk • contribs) 12:10, 31 May 2008 (UTC)