Last updated on the 27th of July, 1999

Contents

• Companies
• Finnish Companies
• Technical information
• Standards and organizations
• Miscellanous

Companies

• Adaptec - various IEEE-1394 products
• Alias | wavefront - Impressive picture gallery
• Ampex
• Sony's Betacam SX format has its very own hype center
• Digital Processing Systems, Inc
• Discreet Logic
• DraCo - makers of Casablanca NLE workstation
• Electrogig - 3D software, virtual sets, etc
• EVS Broadcast Equipment
• FAST Multimedia
• in:sync - NL editing software
• Interactive Images - NLE hardware (Plum)
• JVC Professional (Canada)
• Leitch - almost anything
• Matrox
• Miro (Pinnacle runs the digital video stuff nowadays)
• Media 100 Worldwide Users's Group
• Newtek - of LightWave 3D / Flyer fame.
• Odetics
• Optibase - MPEG products
• Panasonic (Japan)
• Pinnacle Systems, Inc
• Play, Inc. - check out Trinity. Dealer beta is underway, they say...
• Quadrant
• Quantel
• QuVIS, Inc - makers of QuBit, digital disk/tape recorder
• Radius - Mac-based digital video/imaging stuff
• Scitex Digital Video - includes former Abekas
• Snell & Wilcox
• Softimage
• Sony Electronics
• Sony (Japan) - mostly in Japanese and doesn't have much coverage on international products
• Tektronix, Inc / Grass Valley
• Truevision, Inc. - PC/Mac video hardware
• Toshiba America
• Toshiba Corporation (Japan)
• Videonics

Finnish Companies

• Loop AV production
• Mediatrade
• ProAV Saarikko & Juselius
• PinGrid Oy - but of course.

Technical information

• Information on video recording formats. Includes background information on numerous professional formats
• Information on consumer formats
• Quadruplex Park - great site on historical formats
• A glossary on most of the terms used in the documents above, by Videomaker Magazine
• Televisiokanavat vs. taajuus, 100KB
• Big Time TV glossary - a slightly more humorous one
• DV & Firewire Central - a wealth of information on these exciting new technologies
• Description of digital formats based on IEEE-1394 by Adaptec, and info on the bus itself.
• 1394 Trace Association
• The Blue Screen Page - Steven Bradford elaborates on blue screen / chroma key techniques
• MPEG: frequently asked questions
• DVD technical notes
• BBC Aberdeen, engineering info - includes comprehensive listings of television systems in use all around the world, plus pinouts of the damn SCART connector!
• Charles Poynton's video page - lots of technical info and links

Standards and organizations

• International Broadcasting Convention
• ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) - US HDTV standard and links to the members of the committee
• ITU (International Telecommunications Union)
• SMPTE
• NAB
• EBU

Miscellanous

• Post production horror stories compiled by Rien Post
• Video University - resources for both video amateurs and pros.
• Desktop video links by Patrick Beaulieu
• DV Live - another mag on the web
• Rick Davis' digital video page
• Videomaker Magazine
• Mega-Media Hyperlinks (Northwestern University) - awful name, but lots of links to almost anything related to audiovisual media
• Frank Beacham - thoughts on video and technology in general; good reading