Paintbox has become established as the broadcast industry standard system for the production of graphics in television and is used wherever high quality images are required for presentation, editing and advertising in the television media. It is a unique system providing a complete electronic TV graphics studio for the graphic artist / designer designed to be as similar in operation to traditional methods as possible.

The hardware platform provides interfaces to meet the industry's requirement for greater compatibility between equipment. The system provides both analogue component video and CCIR 601 digital video inputs and outputs as well as serial control ports so that the system can be installed into virtually any environment.