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Eyeheight Reports Successful IBC2009
By Staff
posted Sep 21, 2009, 20:20 |
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Eyeheight, one of the leading manufacturers of broadcast-quality modular infrastructure
for the television production and post-production market, reports a buoyant
and successful IBC2009. Held in Amsterdam September 11-15, the show attracted
over 45,000 attendees from all over the world.
"With eight new additions to our product range at this event, IBC2009
was a very important show for us," comments Eyeheight sales director Martin
Moore. "Our strategy of promoting an easy and investment-friendly expansion
path from SD through multi-definition to full HD origination and post-production
has proved to be exactly what the broadcast and independent sectors require.
Our latest multi-definition solutions cost no more than SD and, being 3G-capable,
also provide a high level of future-proofing. We saw visitors from Europe, Asia,
Australasia and the Americas. These tended to be more senior and therefore more
focused people than in previous years which was itself an advantage. Some good
orders have been won from European and Middle East broadcasters plus promising
sales leads from the USA. Our US distributor, John Terrey, worked with us throughout
the show. We replaced the one-off distributor meeting held at previous IBCs
with a series of one-to-one meetings and this proved much more successful for
everybody. And we have finally gone green enough to migrate almost entirely
from paper and CDs. Everything you could ask of Eyeheight apart from the hardware
itself is downloadable from our website."
The eight additions to Eyeheight's range are summarised below. Additional details
will be release shortly as each product goes into production.
NEW: CW-2M font crawler (available now)
The CW-2M is an HD/SD logo and ticker generator with integral keyer. It allows
animated and static graphics plus a line of sideways-crawling text such as breaking
news to be added to any part of a television image. Fully compatible with 1080i/1080p/720p
high-definition or 575i/480i standard-definition environments, the CW-2M includes
a dual-channel logo inserter which can be used to impose a background image
or strap over live video.
NEW: Compact single-card products
The LE-2nM, LE-2nS and LE-2nU are fully-featured single-card legalisers housed
in a compact and accessibly-priced half-rack-width 1 U chassis with external
mains power supply unit. Models SA-2nM, SA-2nS and SA-2nU are safe-area generators
and the AR-2nM and AR-2nS are aspect ratio converters. In each of these model
names, the 2nS suffix denotes standard definition, 2nM denotes multi-definition
and 2nU denotes ultra-definition (1080p dual-link). 2nM versions auto-detect
whether incoming video is SDI or HD-SDI and switches into the appropriate format.
Full 10 bit processing is used throughout. Each product is designed to be operated
via Eyeheight softPanel computer control software via USB connection to a standard
RJ45 Ethernet socket on the rear of the chassis.
NEW: LE-2U legaliser dual-link legaliser
Eyeheight's LE-2U is a dual-link legaliser with composite, RGB and YUV and YUV
colour space correction. The LE-2U legalises the incoming signal in user-selected
colour space (RGB or YUV component, PAL or NTSC composite, or RGB-and-composite
combined). The unit auto detects whether the incoming video is SDI, HD-SDI or
dual-link and switches into the appropriate format.
NEW: LI-2DM dual-channel multi-definition animating logo-inserter
Eyeheight's LI-2DM is a multi-rate dual logo-inserter with each channel completely
independent (separate inputs and outputs), enabling mixed-rate operation. Each
logo inserter has two independent layers allowing two logos to be superimposed
at any one time. Logos can also be animated. Storage capacity is approximately
one HD full frame of storage or five SD full frames of storage for each inserter.
NEW: 'playoutHD' presentation switcher
Offering an efficient upgrade path from 525/625-line to 1080i operation in broadcast
transmission centres, 'playoutHD' is structured as a modular A/B switcher with
four-group 16-channel audio facilities, supported by a wide range of modular
options including keyer and bug/crawler inserter. Standard features of playoutHD
include automation control, manual control and/or emergency control. 'playoutHD'
is supplied complete with Eyeheight's Playout Application Suite software for
general set-up, operational monitoring and detailed diagnostics.
NEW: SA-2U 4:4:4 dual-link graticule/safe-area and blanking generator
(available now)
Shown in prototype at IBC2008, the SA-2U is a 4:4:4 dual-link capable graticule/safe-area
and blanking generator. It is designed for SD, HD-SDI, multi-definition (single-link)
and 2K dual-link post-production applications. It generates safe-action graticules,
safe-title and centre markers (short and full screen) for all common TV and
film formats. The SA-2U is capable of handling 2048 x 1080 ('2k') and 1920 x
1080 SMPTE 274M HD signals as well as 4:3 up to 16:9 SD and includes operational
blanking control.
NEW: TC-2M multi-definition timecode system
The TC-2M is a multi-definition timecode reader and generator which reads LTC,
VITC & ATC and will generate VITC & ATC. As a reader each timecode type
can be burnt into an SD or HD picture or viewed on the LCD display of the Eyeheight
Flexi-Panel, FP-9. In generator mode, the timecode can be preset to free-run
or be jammed to any of the three read timecode format conversation, e.g. from
LTC to VITC or ATC. All user bits and ancillary data can also be optionally
displayed.
NEW: UD-2 up/down converter (available now)
The UD-2 is a high quality up/down converter with three-field temporal processing
and 3:2-pulldown frame-rate conversion. Like all Eyeheight multi-definition
products, it is compatible with the 18 video standards currently in use across
525/625 SD as well as 720p, 1080p and 1080i HD. The UD-2 incorporates HD/SD
input auto-sensing and is fully transparent to embedded audio. User-adjustable
delay compensation is provided on all 16 audio channels to offset the video
processing time.
A globally-active innovator in broadcast-quality video and audio engineering,
Eyeheight designs and manufactures a wide range of SDI/HD-SDI equipment for
use in programme-origination, quality assurance, post-production, master-control
and associated areas. These include aspect-ratio converters, colour correctors,
embedded-audio shufflers, keyers, legalisers, logo inserters, master control
switchers, monitoring interfaces, safe-area generators and vision mixers. Eyeheight
products centre on a modular platform with Ethernet control and monitoring for
easy connection to other devices and to external automation.
About Eyeheight: www.eyeheight.com
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