By Elina Shatkin, August 16, 2004
Tektronix, Inc., a provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced its new WVR7100 Rasterizer for monitoring the quality of high-definition (HD) content to meet the demands of broadcasters and video editors. With the WVR7100 Rasterizer, HD, standard definition (SD), and composite analog signals, as well as digital and analog audio can be all monitored from one instrument.
More HD programs are being produced and HDTVs are finding their way into more households. Pressure is mounting on television organizations to meet the consumer expectations for HD while also complying with the legal specifications for HD broadcasting. Operators in hybrid (HD, SD and composite analog) broadcast facilities need a cost-effective, feature rich, and easy-to-use monitoring solution that helps them quickly and reliably determine the quality of transmitted content. The new WVR7100 Rasterizer enables engineers, technicians, video editors, and colorists to provide the highest video quality and conformance to broadcast specifications.
With the FlexVu display, customers can uniquely configure their instrument to display waveform, vector, gamut, picture, alarm screens, error log, and audio signal levels and lissajous in four different tiles
. The WVR7100 is the only HD Rasterizer with the de facto industry standard, Tektronix-patented, gamut displays (diamond, split diamond and arrowhead) that ensure that the broadcast material meets gamut compliance in the component and composite color spaces.
The user interface for the WVR7100 is extremely intuitive and access to key functionality is available with the touch of one button. The shallow menu structure allows the user to quickly access all of the unit's key functionality. Customers continue to require additional flexibility when integrating monitoring solutions within their facilities. To meet this need, a new remote front panel capability allows the user to access and control the WVR7100 from a distance of up to 100 feet by using a remote front panel that is identical to the front panel on the unit.
The WVR7100 is an all-digital instrument that offers unparalleled accuracy and stability, and ensures consistent measurement results time after time. With the digital design, measurement reliability is no longer a concern as customers don't have to worry about periodic calibration of test tools that drift with fluctuations in ambient temperatures over time.
The new Tektronix WVR7100 is designed with passive loop through inputs, which makes it the industry's only HD Rasterizer that can be installed within the actual signal path, so that the signal being monitored is the signal viewers see. The WVR7100 supports two passive loop-through HD SDI inputs of the prevalent HD formats (720p, 1035i, 1080i, 1080p and 1080sF) at a variety of frame rates.
The price of the WVR7100 Rasterizer starts at $11,000.
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