24 TVBEurope TVBEurope 1993-2013
Market spreads for still stores Flexibility and inter-connectivity are key for still store users
By Tim Frost
STANDALONE, NETWORKING or integration with other systems — buying decisions on still stores have gone a long way beyond the basics of image quality and storage capacity. As the price of both internal memory and the various disc storage media have been driven down by the computer market, it is now taken as read that a still store will be able to handle the quantity and quality of images that each user demands. “Storage has changed rapidly
over the last decade. Now you can effectively have as much as you
want and it is no longer an issue,” states Bob Pank at Quantel. Aston’s Alison Redman
firmly believes that no system can stand entirely on its own. “It depends on the market you’re aiming at as nobody can be all things to all people. We don’t network, but we can import and export files and we can also now deal with Apple Mac Photoshop images. So although these are standalone devices, they don’t work in isolation.” Simon Shaw, MD of Accom UK distributor Boxer Ltd, believes there will be opportunities for niche products
London’s TVi to add Digital Betacam, D5
CENTRAL LONDON facility TVi has become one of the first facilities in Europe to place an order for Sony Digital Betacam VTRs, which will be launched in June. The company has also ordered Panasonic D5 VTRs, which will also be launched this summer. TVi, part of the Carlton
Communications Group, is spending £750,000 on upgrading
its facilities. The new digital VTRs will be installed in the company’s second digital edit suite, currently being built around the Sony DVS 8000 digital component mixer. Debbie Hills, TVi managing
director, said the new suite would be aimed at programme makers. “We believe digital component is the route to go because we believe that’s what producers will be using.”
Spielberg’s new movie,
with help from Belfast STEVEN SPIELBERG’S latest blockbuster, Jurassic Park, will open in the US this June on 1,000 screens with a new all-digital audio playback system from US company Digital Theater Systems. The system is based on a 4:1 digital audio data compression
technology, developed and supplied on a single IC by Audio Processing Technology of Belfast. Employing interlocked CD-ROM drives, the new cinema audio system incorporates apt-X100 audio data compression to play up to 31/2 hours of multichannel audio.
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that cannot be justified by the larger systems. “The Accom is clearly focused on telecine applications. As technology improves you will be able to access images more easily but it is the software on top of that that will justify a product’s existence and success.”
STILL STORE SUPPLIERS
Accom, Alta/Dynatech, Aston, CEL Electronics, For-A, Grass Valley, Leitch, Quantel, Sony, Thomson
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