THE HOSPITAL CHOOSES CRYSTAL VISION'S FLEXIBLE TOOLBOX (March 2004)

Crystal Vision has won a prestigious order for The Hospital, a new multi-million pound television and arts complex in Covent Garden in London, UK.

The Hospital was the result of collaboration between former Eurythmic Dave Stewart and Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates. Now occupying the site of the old St. Paul's Hospital (hence the name), The Hospital chose Crystal Vision equipment because a "flexible toolbox" was needed.

The order included two TANDEM-200s, dual embedder/de-embedders which have advanced functionality. They will be used to embed audio into video and extract audio from video. Also purchased was one ADCA412, a 24 bit dual analogue to AES/EBU digital audio converter, and a DACA214, a 24 bit dual AES/EBU digital to analogue audio converter.

These will be housed in Indigo 2, a 2U frame with passive front panel, which holds any mixture of up to 12 video and audio modules.

In another order, The Hospital placed one of the first orders for a Flip scan reverser. This innovative product was designed to give studio presenters a mirror image of themselves, which makes presenting and manoeuvring easier. In this instance Flip was used with the popular children's puppet Basil Brush in the Carlton Television 2003 Christmas Show.