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Motion Compensated HD Upconverters

Model: Quasar

Enhancer - a sophisticated enhancement control means that even legacy formats look good in HD
Gamut Legalizer - guarantees that all output is within legal limits making it suitable for the broadcast signal chain
Color Space Converter - provides conversion from SD Rec. 601 to HD BTU709
Aspect Ratio Converter - Allows sources to be reformatted with the most common options available as presets. Support for widescreen signalling enables seamless integration in the playout environment
Closed Captions - handled and converted to ensure compliance with legal obligations

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The world's first motion compensated HDTV upconverter integrates Emmy® award winning technologies to deliver the best ever high definition pictures.

Enhancer - a sophisticated enhancement control means that even legacy formats look good in HD
Gamut Legalizer - guarantees that all output is within legal limits making it suitable for the broadcast signal chain
Color Space Converter - provides conversion from SD Rec. 601 to HD BTU709
Aspect Ratio Converter - Allows sources to be reformatted with the most common options available as presets. Support for widescreen signalling enables seamless integration in the playout environment
Closed Captions - handled and converted to ensure compliance with legal obligations
Timecode - extracted and converted to both VITC and LTC
Monitoring and Control via SNMP and RollCall

Converter Signal Types - Audio & Video
Converter Type - Up/Down Converter
Rackmountable - Yes

Operating Temperature (Maximum): 104 F
Operating Temperature (Minimum): 32 F
Input Signal Types: SD
Number of Channels: 16
Output (Converted) Signal Type: HD
Rack Units (Height): 1
AC Voltage (Maximum): 240 Volts
AC Voltage (Minimum): 200 Volts
Current Draw: 1.50 Amps
Depth: 21.38 in
Height: 1.74 in
Width: 18.98 in
Signal Inputs:
- Serial digital – SD: 2 x 75 Ohm SD serial digital input at 270Mhz, SMPTE259M-C and embedded audio SMPTE272M
- Reference: 1 x analog loop through HDTV Tri-sync SD Bi-sync SMPTE 240M/274M
- Audio: 4 x balanced AES-3
Signal Outputs:
- Serial digital – HD: 2 x 75 Ohm HD serial digital output at 1.48GHz, SMPTE 292 and embedded audio SMPTE299M
- Audio 4 x balanced AES-3
Control:
- RollCall: 1 x RollCall remote via BNC
Video Standards:
- Input standard: SD-SDI, 625 50i, 525 59i
- Output standard: HD-SDI, 720 50p, 720 59p, 1080 50i, 1080 59i
Video Controls:
- Aspect ratio converter: Presets, WSS, Variable, 4:3>16:9PB, 4:3>14:9PB, 16:9FH>16:9, 16:9LB>16:9, User Presets 10 User definable presets with names, User controls Size, Pan, Asp, Position, WSS - Wide Screen Signaling
- Input blanking: Full user control provided Left, Right, Top, Bottom
- Output blanking: Full user control provided Left, Right, Top, Bottom, Output blanking color Hue, Sat, Luma
- Proc amp: Luma Gain, Black Level, Chroma Gain, Hue, YC Delay, Legalize
- Video utils: Noise Reduction, Split Screen, MPEG Pre-processing, Enhancer, Ident
Audio Controls:
- Processing: Internal processing for 8 pairs (16 channels), all internal processing applied as master (all pairs) or individually (per pair)
- Mode: Master (PCM, Data, DolbyE)
- Source selection: Source selection each pair AES[1:4], embed[1:8], tone, mute, off
- Gain: Master & each pair
- Delay: Master & each pair
- Polarity control: Each pair
- Mix: Each pair
System Controls:
- Input: Source (A,B), Standard, Input fail
- Output: Standard Pattern
- Synchronizer: Frame synchronizer Mode – Freerun, external, input, minimum delay, Horizontal Timing, Vertical Timing
- Closed captions: EIA608 > EIA708, WST > RDD8(OP47)
- Timecode: Embed VITC enable, Embed LTC enable
- Memory: 8 machine memories re-nameable presets
- RollCall: Logging (input, reference, output), RollTrack™ (audio delay)
- SNMP: Monitoring and Control via SNMP
Power:
- Redundancy: Dual redundant power supplies

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