Eyeheight introduces HDTV legaliser

Scheduled for introduction at IBC 2004 in Amsterdam, Eyeheight's new legalEyesHD is a compact HD-SDI video legaliser designed for use in mobile production vehicles, postproduction facilities and broadcast centres.
Using full 10-bit processing, it enables programme-makers, editors and playout facilities to ensure that their videotape master feed is within the levels set for the target delivery chain or transmitter.
Occupying just 1U high by half rack width, legalEyesHD has adjustable hard (clobbering) and soft clipping levels, independently controllable luma gain, chroma gain and black level and eight power-protected user memories. In addition to the 1.5 gigabit/s HD-SDI legalised signal output, an optional Indicate-Legal feed shows the degree of overshoot control, where necessary, being applied to the signal with user-assignable indication colours for each of the three (RGB) component channels.
A 19 inch rack-width version is optionally available.
Eyeheight Managing Director Martin Moore saids: "Investment in HD resources had grown rapidly over the past year as programme-makers increasingly seek to maximise the archive life of their productions. legalEyesHD brings the full feature set of the popular SD legalEyes into the HD market, including our safeEyes integral safe-area generator which will remain an essential feature until 16:9 becomes, if ever, the universal television picture format."
Based on Eyeheight’s geNETics platform, legalEyesHD employs user-upgradable software and firmware to ensure conformity with emerging signal delivery standards.
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