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helped establish the first “compatibili- ty” standards in conjunction with Radio Rentals Contracts. In fact it still has one of the original RRC Philips 1500s at its St John’s Wood facility in London.
By 1982 the five-year-old company was operating three 2” Quadruplex machines and a 16mm flying spot telecine to archive material to 1” C for- mat and it still maintains C format machines today in 625 and 525 line
standards. There is one big difference, though – in 1982 the technical staff all wore white coats, whereas today the dress code is much more informal!
Intervideo’s first standards con- verter was an AVS 6000 standards con- verter, a very reliable unit despite being rather limited in bandwidth and interpolation capacity.
Next came the legendary BBC/McMichael ACE standards
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Photos main: Managing Director, Trevor Nash (centre), quips, “Honey I shrunk the Vids,” whilst Technical Director, Gerry Wade (left) holds a 25 year old 2” master tape and Admin Manager, Clare Russell displays a comparatively miniscule Digi Beta; inset above: One of the original Phillips 1500 machines used by Intervideo in 1977
Intervideo celebrates 25 years of excellence in broadcast duplication and quality assessment