Symbolics Showreel 1992 (High Quality CG Betacam SP Upscaled Commercials & Demonstrations)

This is the official Symbolics, Inc. computer graphics (CG) showreel for 1992.

Symbolics, Inc. was a computer company founded in 1980 by a couple MIT AI Lab associates. They were notable for designing and selling a number of powerful Lisp-based workstations and minicomputers and their contributions to accessible computing for medium-sized businesses and educational institutions. They were also notable for making computer graphics a common sight on TV and elsewhere.

This demonstration tape is a European (PAL) compilation of various productions made by other companies and organizations using Symbolics computers and technologies. This video focuses on a few specific categories: Broadcast, Corporate, Visualisation and Experimental, & High Definition. All together, this showreel is a great display of the growing applications of CG in the early 1990's.

Betacam SP was the professional brother of ED Betamax. Using the same tapes as standard ED Beta, Betacam SP was able to record very high quality component (Y/Pb/Pr) video. It was very popular for on-location Electronic News Gathering (ENG) and for general television production that required portability. It was preceded by plain old (oxide) Betacam. This video, with it's visual glitches, does seem to be a dub from another source, possibly 1" type C tape.

Enjoy this diverse showreel of 1990's CG!

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Chapters (by category):
00:00 - Introduction
02:13 - Broadcast
07:34 - Corporate
10:52 - Visualisation and Experimental
16:55 - High Definition (Virtually Yours...)

NOTE: The tape features dual mono soundtracks. Both soundtracks have been kept even though it sounds chaotic at times.

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This was played back using a Sony MSW-M2100 Betacam player.

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