production broadcast media founded 1961 headquarters anaheim california key people ron stein ceo number of employees 150 2009 website www.crestdigital.com crest digital was a privately owned company specializing in post production and dvd cd replication . crest digital provided editing dvd and blu ray authoring digital asset management audio mixing language dubbing and subtitling and dvd cd optical media replication services . clients included major film and television studios software companies record labels airlines and industrial clients from around the world . the company closed in september 2012 . contents 1 history 2 firsts partial list 3 70mm films in ultrascan 70 list incomplete 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit crest digital was founded in 1961 by maurice stein a former camera store owner and color timer and his wife jeanne . originally named crest national film laboratories the company s services first included developing original 35mm and 16mm film negative release printing and film restoration . 1 during the 1970s and 1980s crest national expanded into the world of video and began to service the in flight entertainment and cable tv industries . language dubbing and subtitling restoration editing sub mastering and videotape duplication services were later added . in the 1990s cd and dvd replication dvd encoding menu design and authoring services were offered and a new optical media manufacturing plant was built in hollywood in 1996 . 2 by 2000 crest national was named 22 of the the 100 fastest growing private companies in los angeles . 3 crest national was given the task of restoring the original cinerama negative for how the west was won in 2000 and built their own screening room complete with three authentic cinerama projectors a seven track sound system and 146 degree curved screen in order to complete the projects . 4 crest national acquired anaheim based concord disc manufacturing corp. in 2004 doubling the size of their cd dvd replication operation and quadrupling their packaging capabilities . 5 crest national rebranded as crest digital in 2006 and expanded their operations into china in 2007 partnering with china film group and building a 15 000 square meter state of the art dvd and cd manufacturing facility outside beijing . 6 crest digital had been the country s majority provider of in flight movies to airlines since the 1970s . 7 they provided editing for content captioning encoding and dubbing and subtitling services in over 65 languages to all the major airlines . crest digital was one of only three class a dvd verification laboratories and one of only two class a hd dvd laboratories approved by the dvd forum in north america . 8 ron stein son of crest digital s founders was the president and ceo . throughout its lifetime the company had been family owned . firsts partial list edit in 1963 crest digital developed the first 35 32 printing equipment for use in motion picture labs . 9 the first closed captioning for the hearing impaired direct for home video cassette and videodisc release was introduced by crest digital then called crest national in 1984 . the company introduced the world s first 65 70mm flying spot scanner film transfer system ultrascan 70 in 1991 . in 2002 the first cineglyph hd large format telecine was introduced . royal philips electronics and crest digital partnered in may 2002 to develop and install the first super audio cd sacd hybrid disc production line in the country at crest digital s hollywood facilities with a production capacity of 3 million discs per year . 10 crest digital also did the first mpeg encoding for in flight films . 11 70mm films in ultrascan 70 list incomplete edit 2001 a space odyssey the hallelujah trail south pacific oklahoma star it s a mad mad mad mad world the alamo spartacus west side story chitty chitty bang bang the sound of music baraka 12 awards edit american society of cinematography 1994 hollywood chamber of commerce women of distinction award to crest digital executive vice president lorraine stein ross 2000 golden image awards 2002 microsoft premier vendor award 2004 specialty graphics imaging association continuity award 2004 saturn awards 2002 2005 2006 2007 specialty graphics imaging association division cd 2004 hollywood arts council charlie award industry founders award 2004 screen printing and graphic imaging association international golden image competition sgia division cds 2001 world airline entertainment association waea lifetime achievement award presented to crest digital ceo ron stein 2009 13 references edit maury stein opens new color film lab hollywood reporter check date values in access date help ; access date requires url help galante block debbie renowned film lab to take on dvd replication tape disc business check date values in access date help ; access date requires url help the 100 fastest growing private companies los angeles business journal check date values in access date help ; access date requires url help cinerama dome moves forward . hollywoodheritage.org . retrieved 2012 01 01 . simons andrew dvd maker bought as industry spins into boom times los angeles business journal check date values in access date help ; access date requires url help http www.www.chinatechnews.com 2007 04 13 5247 china film group plans new dvd manufacturing facility small business los angeles business journal check date values in access date help ; access date requires url help https web.archive.org web 20100610171411 http www.dvdfllc.co.jp verification list cal.html . archived from the original on june 10 2010 . retrieved june 29 2010 . missing or empty title help takowsky suzanne little lady behind the big desk women on top check date values in access date help ; access date requires url help crest national and philips partner to bring sacd hybrid disc manufacturing to the usa . newscenter.philips.com . 2002 05 30 . retrieved 2012 01 01 . hollywood s crest national shines on tape disc business access date requires url help truckenmiller jon r. ultrascan 70 . retrieved 27 april 2014 . http www.crestdigital.com about us awards.php archived march 12 2009 at the wayback machine . external links edit crest digital s channel on youtube crest digital at the internet movie database retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title crest digital & oldid 739194061 categories film companieshidden categories cs1 errors datespages using citations with accessdate and no urlpages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsarticles with wayback machine linkspages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 09 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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