Cintel

Cintel International Ltd
Private
Industry Digital cinema
Fate Liquidation; assets and intellectual property acquired by Blackmagic Design
Founded 1927 (1927)
Founder John Logie Baird
Defunct July 24, 2012 (2012-07-24)
Website www.cintel.co.uk
Rank Cintel Mark 3

Cintel was a British digital cinema company founded in 1927 by John Logie Baird and based in Ware, Hertfordshire. It specialised 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 were 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 with the Spirit DataCine in 1996. The business was in administration until it's announced liquidation. On July 24, 2012 Blackmagic Design acquired the assets of Cintel.[1]

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