ARCHIVE NEWS STORIES
2007...
Biggest order of the year comes from Doordarshan
English football clubs choose Crystal Vision for aspect ratio conversion
undbitte selects Safire for new shopping channel
Safire HD provides chroma keying for UK's first live HD VR graphics transmission
2006...
Two HD chroma keyers for PVI Virtual Media Services
STV chooses Crystal Vision for regional news studios
72 Up-and-downs convert the BBC's first HD studio
Crystal Vision chosen for SKAI's new installation
Four HD chroma keyers for Sportvision's virtual billboard advertising
Modified frames for Nine Network's news helicopters
Crystal Vision is exclusive interface supplier for Scottish TV
Another 63 TANDEMS for ESPN Star Sports
GMTV uses Safire for Trafficlink travel bulletins
2005...
More success in Russia: Zvezda chooses Crystal Vision
De Montfort University is first UK customer for Safire HD
Crystal Vision chosen for Siberia OB trucks
ProSiebenSat.1 uses SYNAD-E for surround sound
BBC uses 28 Crystal Vision video delays for general election
BBC Wales broadcasts National Assembly debates with help from Crystal Vision
BBC Wales uses Crystal Vision interface for studio C1 upgrade
2004...
BBC Weather chooses Safire chroma keyer for new presentation format
TANDEM gets interactive with BSkyB
Channel Nine uses 48V for nine news vehicles
ESPN STAR Sports chooses Crystal Vision interface to reach 185 million viewers
55 interface boards for Cologne Broadcast Centre
ShARC-XP and ViViD provide answer for Channel 4's graphics generator
BBC uses new ShARC-XP for Euro 2004 aspect ratio conversion
BBC pioneers new method of keying for 'Fightbox' using Safire
Quick delivery keeps Millbank Studios on air
Magyar Television selects Crystal Vision for sport
The Hospital chooses Crystal Vision's flexible toolbox

 
Simplifying Dolby systems with Crystal Vision's new HD synchroniser (September 2008)
  SYNNER-E HD has been designed to simplify system designs for those working in HD or SD Dolby E environments. Not only does it combine a video synchroniser, tracking audio delay, embedder, de-embedder and audio processor on one 100mm x 266mm board, it also includes special features for flexible processing of Dolby E and can combine this with standard AES audio.  Read full story...

Crystal Vision releases first 3G HD products (September 2008)
  Crystal Vision is delighted to announce that it is developing a full range of 3G HD products that can be housed in the normal frames alongside any other board from the range. With distribution amplifiers having proved some of Crystal Vision's best-selling HD products over the years, the company has chosen them for its first venture into 3G.  Read full story...

SNMP monitoring now available (September 2008)
  Crystal Vision has added SNMP monitoring to its frames and boards. SNMP monitoring gives Crystal Vision frames improved integration with station management software. Able to work with any SNMP manager, Crystal Vision's SNMP agent can either report the status or generate traps on a status change of any board in the frame.  Read full story...

BBC Studios' Studio Four goes HD (September 2008)
  BBC Studios - part of BBC Resources Ltd., a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC - has selected 165 Crystal Vision interface boards for the HD upgrade of its Studio Four at BBC Television Centre in London.  Read full story...

More power for the 1U frames (September 2008)
  Crystal Vision has introduced a new power supply for its three dual redundant 1U frames. Replacing the PS-55i and available now, the PS-80i is an 80 Watts power supply - developed with the advent of cheaper and more powerful technology.  Read full story...

Crystal Vision appoints new Customer Support Engineer (September 2008)
  Matthew Carter was appointed as our new Customer Support Engineer in August. Matthew has previously worked with people all over the world in his customer support roles.  Read full story...

Who's buying what...? (September 2008)
  It's been a busy few months for sales here at Crystal Vision. Find out who's been buying Crystal Vision products in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, UAE, UK and the USA.  Read full story...

Providing vertical interval control of the aspect ratio with the new AFD product range (July 2008)
  Crystal Vision has developed a new range of products that provide vertical interval control of the aspect ratio. Created through consultations with customers, these innovative products contain very special features which make them ideal for anyone with HD programmes that will also be transmitted by down converting to SD.  Read full story...

Michael Hall joins the Crystal Vision sales team (July 2008)
 

Michael Hall has joined Crystal Vision as Regional Sales Manager. This new international sales role was created to further increase the volume of worldwide sales and is a key part of Crystal Vision's extensive growth strategy for 2008.  Read full story...


Fibre boards bowl them over at Trent Bridge (July 2008)
 

Crystal Vision products are often to be found in interesting sporting applications. Technographic Displays has installed an 83 square metre video replay screen and scoreboard system at Trent Bridge, the home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club in England. At televised matches, such as the recent Third npower Test between England and New Zealand, there is a requirement to show on the screen live video originating from an outside broadcast truck located in the broadcast compound.  Read full story...


Distributors hold Open Houses in Greece and Germany (July 2008)
  Picturestore is Crystal Vision's new area of speciality - an immensely powerful and configurable range of products based on solid-state fast reading and writing DRAM and permanent Flash picture storage. Crystal Vision takes the different strengths from the DRAM and Flash memories and combines them to create a series of picture storage products which offer a real technical advantage over anything else out there.   Read full story...

Launching the first four Picturestore products... (April 2008)
  Picturestore is Crystal Vision's new area of speciality - an immensely powerful and configurable range of products based on solid-state fast reading and writing DRAM and permanent Flash picture storage. Crystal Vision takes the different strengths from the DRAM and Flash memories and combines them to create a series of picture storage products which offer a real technical advantage over anything else out there.   Read full story...

Brand your station with the MultiLogo logo keyer (April 2008)
  MultiLogo is the most sophisticated modular logo keyer available. This space-saving board provides three layers of keying from a variety of internal and external sources, including a generous multi-port non-volatile video store that can read and write multiple images at once.   Read full story...

Add extra video sources to a mixer with Clip N Key (April 2008)
  Clip N Key is a low-cost clip and sting store and the most convenient way to add extra video sources to a mixer to enhance transitions. Ideal for sports or live events programming, it allows a special clip or sting with optional associated key signal to be played repeatedly - for example, the same moving image each time a team scores a goal.   Read full story...

Playback provides affordable action replay (April 2008)
  With Playback, replay technology becomes affordable for the first time. This unique product has been designed for sports applications and can replay 25 seconds of HD video (or 150 seconds of SD) at a significantly lower price than the hard drive alternatives.   Read full story...

20 seconds of HD delay with ViViD HD-20 (April 2008)
  How would you use 20 seconds of HD delay? ViViD HD-20 is Crystal Vision's new video delay line and is ideal for engineers who need to match extra long delays in their system. Typically used as part of a profanity delay system, it is also ideal for MPEG encoders and decoders, MPEG-compressed HD radio links and virtual sets graphics that require more than the standard half a second of HD delay.  Read full story...

Space-saving, affordable HD colour correction and legalisation (April 2008)
  Crystal Vision brings its affordable space-saving technology to High Definition colour correction and legalisation for the first time with CoCo HD. Working with both High Definition and Standard Definition, CoCo HD includes an excellent range of adjustments for those who need to change the whole picture, including independent gain and offset, as well as individual red, blue and green gamma controls which are rarely seen at this price level.   Read full story...

WSS and relay bypass for the ARC-10MC (April 2008)
  The ARC-10MC is just one of those products that keeps on evolving! The latest new features are WSS detection and insertion and relay bypass protection.   Read full story...

Hollyoaks goes HD (April 2008)
  UK production company Lime Pictures has chosen 91 Crystal Vision interface boards for its major upgrade to HD, which includes a complete new High Definition infrastructure as well as new production galleries and edit suites. The upgrade was triggered by the decision to begin making the company's popular drama series "Hollyoaks" in High Definition for transmission on 4HD.   Read full story...

Crystal Vision gets its first Head of Sales (April 2008)
  Crystal Vision has appointed its first Head of Sales following the promotion of Technical Sales Manager Stewart McGhie to this new strategic management position.   Read full story...