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S.two Digital Field Recorders earn the ARRIRAW T-LINK Certification (6/5/2008)

S.two Corporation known for their industry and market-leading uncompressed portable recorders have become the first company to earn the new ARRIRAW T-LINK™ Certification. This has been granted to the following models: TAKE2™, DFR2™, and DFR2K™ uncompressed portable recorders; i.DOCK™ and i.DOCK4™ ingest docking stations; and A.DOCK™ and A.DOCK4™ archive stations.
 
ARRIRAW T-LINK™ is a proprietary uncompressed raw data link from ARRI that sends raw 3K resolution Bayer pattern data direct from the Arriflex D-21 film style digital camera to an attached recorder.  S.two recorders receive this signal and provide real-time de-Bayer to HD-SDI conversion; the HD-SDI is then fed to monitors for viewing in EE and live modes—while recording as well as during instant playback. The Bayer data is recorded in its raw original quality in DPX frame wrappers. 
 
One of the main attractions of using the Arriflex D-21 is that it provides a correctly sized super 35mm sensor using a 4 x 3 aspect ratio; this allows the use of standard 35mm film lenses, both Spherical and Anamorphic—S.two recorders provide the correct aspect ratio on the viewing outputs including accurate high quality 2.40:1 widescreen when using anamorphic lenses.  User loadable internal Look-up Tables (LUTs) also mean that on set viewing does not require the whole video village approach that many have come to think of as necessary for a digital shoot.  The ARRIRAW T-LINK™ data is implemented across S.two products as noted above.
 
Steve Roach S.two VP Marketing comments, “We’re very pleased to be first to gain this certification and to have helped define the next steps in Digital Cinematography.  Providing marked increases in quality while easing on set requirements has always been a key company goal. The ability to use ARRIRAW T-LINK™ in our existing, mature, and proven workflow—all the way from capture to conform—shows that S.two and the D.MAG™ platform have set the highest standards for Digital Cinematography at all resolutions.”

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