IBC 2006 - European Debut for Latest Vistek Product Line Breakthroughs from Pro-Bel
Stand 3.151, IBC, Amsterdam – 8th September 2006: IBC 2006 sees the European debut of both Cifer – the unique universal standards converter – and VALID8, the new, eight-channel audio-sync monitoring version of Vistek Product Line’s highly regarded VALID.
Cifer has been developed in conjunction with Sweden’s Digital Vision. This is not the first time that Digital Vision and Vistek have joined forces to break new ground: their previous SD collaboration – the Vector-VMC – was awarded an Emmy™ by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Cifer is designed to satisfy today’s multi-format, multi-resolution requirements and is based on proprietary motion estimation techniques that facilitate pixel-accurate estimations and hence conversion. Cifer is truly universal as it can convert between any SD standard and between the primary HD standards. It can also convert from SD to HD and HD to SD with the resulting pictures virtually indistinguishable from the original.
Digital Vision’s expertise is used to calculate the motion vectors while Pro-Bel’s deep understanding of HD conversion processes produces the resulting converted picture stream.
VALID8 has been painstakingly designed to provide foolproof assistance in the battle against the ever-present problem of audio/video sync issues in the digital world. There are a whole host of places in the broadcast chain where video delay can occur and consequently video/audio sync problems. VALID8 provides users with a simple but accurate method of assessing those timing issues and therefore allowing a solution to be implemented.
VALID8 (Video and Audio Line-Up and Identification) is designed for today’s HD world and works with any HD standard. In addition, there are now eight audio inputs – four left-right pairs – rather than the previous four. VALID8 can also produce SD signals if required.
VALID8 produces four separate signals: a user-definable test pattern background; two dynamic display elements (the video equivalent of a film clapper board); up to eight channels of audio and; ID – up to four lines of user-defined captions plus a central indication of the original standard and audio level.
Users can detect A/V delay on a purely visual/aural basis. In addition, the Vistek Product Line also contains the VALID reader – the V6821. This can display the error to milliseconds. The reader can also indicate whether there has been any channel crossover or if there is phase error between left and right. The actual level of signals can be displayed in a wide variety of metering formats.
About Pro-Bel:
Introducing its first router in 1977, Pro-Bel products have gone on to become integral to broadcast operations worldwide. Providing total expertise in integrated, scalable on-air solutions, all designed to protect the investment of the customer, Pro-Bel products are developed to take the broadcaster well into the digital future. Further information can be obtained from http://www.pro-bel.com
Contact Information:
Company contact:
Katharine Guy
Pro-Bel Ltd
Tel: +44 1189 214 294
katharine.guy@pro-bel.com
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jennie@manormarketing.tv
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