By Staff, September 30, 2003
Vista Systems' Montage was the backbone of Intel's recent worldwide product launch held at the Manhattan Center in New York City. Staged by AV Concepts, the system was used to help the computer-chip giant launch its newest mobile-technology breakthrough, Centrino.
Centrino mobile technology integrates wireless capability into a new generation of mobile PCs that promise to bring business users and consumers greater freedom to connect in new places and in new ways. Producer Trillium Creations, Inc. commissioned AV Concepts to stage the product launch. The presentation centered around three 15'-diameter circular-projection images that featured custom graphics and numerous synchronized video rolls. In addition to the Montage, equipment included an Isis 32 input/output router, six Doremi video hard drives, numerous 32" plasma panels for preview and six (three double-stacked) Christie S9 projectors featuring the new dark chip
. Data was sent from the Montage to the projectors via high-resolution fiber-optic lines.
"The Montage provided a tremendous amount of flexibility in terms of source-material inputs and output configurations including sizing, positioning, formats and the ability to save and recall outputs as one-button cues," commented Mike Twilegar, AV Concepts' project manager.
Montage is a video-processing and windowing system designed by Vista Systems specifically to offer an uncompromising solution for seamless widescreen and multidisplay applications. The system uses a new advanced architecture that allows "virtual displays" inside the Montage processor that are much higher resolution than any single-display device can handle. Inputs can be windowed anywhere in the virtual display and can even overlap each other. Outputs, which can be projectors, LED walls, video walls, recording devices, operators' monitors, etc., can view any portion of the virtual display. Outputs can overlap horizontally or vertically with 10-bit edge and blending and black-level compensation and can be generated in composite, Betacam and analog computer formats to UXGA, HD, SDI, DVI or HD-SDI.
Over the past four years, Vista Systems' switchers have become the industry standard for live multiple-destination video and data mixed-signal switching. For more information on Vista Systems, visit the company's website at www.vistasystems.net.
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