Victoria Line
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East Coastway and
Marshlink
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Belfast to Londonderry
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Price: £19.95
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The Swanage Railway Experience
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Price: £12.95
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EAST LONDON & DISTRICT
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THE TUBE
SERIES 3
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About Video 125
Television cameraman and director Peter Middleton formed Video 125 in 1984.
Having started a long and successful career at London Weekend Television at an exceptionally young age (just 18 years), Peter learned the art of television production at the highest level. Moving from one ITV company to another over the years, Peter worked on classic TV shows as diverse as Morecambe and Wise and Magpie, from Tommy Cooper to Rainbow and from Bless this house to News at Ten. |
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| Back in the 1980s and even to this day, whenever a rail programme was shown on TV it always seemed to talk down to the enthusiast. As often as not a camera would show the view from the driver's cab but only for a precious few seconds. As a life-long rail enthusiast, Peter wanted to see more - much more. Domestic video was in its infancy but it gave the opportunity to view specialist content in one's own home. The Driver's eye view format was born and in April 1984, Peter took a week's leave from Thames Tv to film the Settle and Carlisle. Living in Shepperton, the home of Ian Allan Ltd, he immediately offered his services to this fully established company. Sadly, and somewhat short-sightedly, they declined, so Peter formed his own business calling it Video 125 after the country's most successful train. |
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Following the success of this first production, made with semi professional equipment that Peter owned to fulfil a horseracing contract for Racetech , the following year he produced another Driver's eye view, this time made to full broadcast quality and with a much higher budget - Steam to Mallaig.
In 1988, with Video 125 going from strength to strength, Peter quit his full time broadcasting career to concentrate on the video publishing business. By 1990, Video 125 moved out of the Producer's home into modern commercial premises in Sunninghill, Ascot. Here a broadcast quality production facility was established. VHS duplication was also brought under the same roof in a successful attempt to improve the quality and reliability of the dominant format. |
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With production facilities having gone digital at the turn of the century, Video 125 was well placed to produce to the high quality necessary for producing DVDs. In fact the format was so successful. that VHS video tape became obsolete almost overnight.
As for the future? High definition (HD) is the buzz word these days. Producing picture detail and clarity some four times greater than standard definition (SD) Video 125 invested £50,000 during 2008 upgrading to the very latest HD format (Sony XDCAM 4 2 2) with editing facilities to match. From May of 2008 onwards, all filming has been in HD, archived for the future in HD but for the time being published in SD. The current domestic HD format is Sony's Blu-ray disc system, producing a full 1080 lines resolution. When there are sufficient numbers of our customers with Blu-ray, we shall release new productions ion Blu-ray (along side normal SD DVD of course). Any developments will be included in our news page.
Customer service and satisfaction are also what we strive to achieve. We hope that Video 125 will remain number one for railway programming for many years to come but at the end of the day we owe all our success to you, our customers. A big thank you to all of you from all of us at Video 125. |
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