Talk:Quantel

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Use in movies 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Effect Systems Ltd 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Quantel  Product Time Line  - early omissions 

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