a british company based in ware hertfordshire which specialises in the design and manufacture of professional post production equipment for transcribing film into video or data formats . it was formerly part of the rank organisation . their main products are based on either cathode ray tube crt or charge coupled device ccd technology and include like the ditto ditto evolution & datamill film scanners millennium ii millennium hd & c reality & dsx telecines imagemill 1 & 2 image processing system . cintel c reality film deck many movies and tv shows for tv were transferred from film to tv on cintel telecines . cintel saw reduced sales when their competitor came out with the spirit datacine in 1996 . as of june 2012 the business is in administration . 1 on july 24 2012 blackmagic design announced the acquisition of the assets of cintel international . 2 contents 1 history 2 notes 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit this article contains embedded lists that may be better presented using prose . you can help by converting the list or lists to prose if appropriate . editing help is available . september 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message 1927 john logie baird founds the baird television company which later becomes cinema television and then cintel . 3 during the second world war cintel supplies thousands of specialist photoelectric cells and cathode ray tubes for the war effort . 1950 the first flying spot telecine was installed at the bbc s lime grove studios . 1958 cinema television limited was renamed rank cintel limited . 1946 tmk1 shown using a polygonal prism system it was the first 35mm continuous motion flying spot telecine . 1964 the model mk ii telecine with twin lens was shown it supported both 35mm and 16mm . 1977 the first rank cintel flying spot scanner was introduced into north america by mpv motion picture video corporation toronto and the first colorist and pan & scan operator was the then president bob sher . the model mk iii used a new system called jump scan . 1987 the model mk iiib was shown it used a progressive scan crt and a digiscan system to make sdtv . mk iiic was the next generation digiscan with improvements 1989 the ursa 4 2 2 with d1 color space output was shown . 1993 the ursa gold with 4 4 4 output was shown . 1993 the rank cintel mk iii with hdtv high definition was shown . 1997 the ursa diamond with many third party improvements added was shown . oscar was added as an optical dust and scratch removal system for their telecines . c reality was a hd telecine with a data option for di work . 2002 the dsx telecine hd and data was shown . 2002 cintel acquired innovation tk including the millennium hd and data telecine . 2003 cintel launches grace an internal film grain reducer option for c reality and dsx machines millennium ii 2004 they shown the datamill fast data scanner based on millennium 2 technology 2004 the grace system was shown as an external film grain reducer millennium hd imagemill 1 video 2005 ditto was shown as a low end 2k data scanner with a 3k native sensor ditto evolution imagemill 2 data ocean controller cintel ursa diamond notes edit http www.companiesinadministration.co.uk company 04053340 cintel international limited http www.blackmagicdesign.com press pressdetails releaseid 60309 eye of the world john logie baird and television see also edit test film 3d lut color motion picture film color suite da vinci systems for color grading and video editing systems . pandora international references edit digital content producer millimeter a brief history of film to tape with dtv and hdtv what s next feb 1 1998 by . w. leitner 1 a brief history for colorists from finalcolor.com 2 the history of television 1942 to 2000 by albert abramson christopher h. sterling 3 external links edit official website usedtelecine.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cintel & oldid 732382950 categories film and video technologymanufacturing companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in hertfordshirehidden categories articles needing cleanup from september 2013all pages needing cleanuparticles with sections that need to be turned into prose from september 2013 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 31 july 2016 at 16 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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