11 Facts About Quantel

Quantel was a company based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1973 that designed and manufactured digital production equipment for the broadcast television, video production and motion picture industries.

Name Quantel comes from Quantised Television, in reference to the process of converting a television picture into a digital signal.

Peter became Chairman with Quantel remaining a privately owned company of the publicly quoted UEI.

Quantel had a global presence with major offices, staff and facilities on the east and west coast of the US, in Paris, Tokyo, London, Seoul, Hong Kong and Sydney, plus other overseas resources.

In 1989 Quantel had been acquired from UEI by Carlton Communications who had acquired high end sound console manufacturer Solid State Logic as part of the same deal.

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Finally in September 2015, the Quantel name was dropped and the residual business placed inside the Snell operation, branded as Snell Advanced Media.

Quantel was based at 31 Turnpike Road, Newbury, Berkshire, England since 1982.

On 1 October 2008 Quantel ended the outsourcing contract with Effect Systems.

Quantel has always been very protective of their product designs and patents, especially relating to Paintbox-type functionality.

The majority of Quantel products used code names for some parts of their systems.

Many of the major movies released since 1999 were created or manipulated using Quantel technology, including Star Wars episode 2 and 3, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Day After Tomorrow, and Sin City.