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01/03/2006

Miranda highlights multiple HD products at CABSAT

Miranda will be highlighting multiple new HD products at CABSAT stand 826.
The new products include the Imagestore Intuition channel branding processor with an improved Arabic character generation performance, a new up/down/crossconverter with advanced aspect ratio conversion and the new HD-Bridge DEC+ HDV/ASI to HD-SDI interface.
The HD monitoring range is also strengthened with new features for the Kaleido-Alto-HD and Kaleido-K2 multi-image display processors.
The Imagestore Intuition HD/SD channel branding processor's character generator has been improved with Arabic-language support with contextual analysis and soft shadows. The character generator is ideal for data-driven applications and offers virtually unlimited playout of text crawls, rolls, and dynamic text. It offers full creative freedom with respect to text styles, backgrounds, and the dynamic qualities of individual graphic/animation layers. The processor offers multilevel animation/still playout for sophisticated branding and promotional graphics, and its software suite has also been improved to speed workflow from graphics preparation to proofing and playout.
Miranda's award-winning XVP HD interfacing family has been enhanced with the new XVP-811i HD/SD up/down/crossconverter. This new interface features sophisticated aspect ratio conversion using the soon-to-be-standardised Advanced Format Descriptor (AFD), and this allows broadcasters to manage aspect ratio conversion automatically and highly effectively using embedded control signaling.
The XVP-811i also offers 5.1 to left/right downmixing for easy audio monitoring of downconverted HD signals. A Dolby E Metadata insertion capability provides efficient distribution of audio information across a plant, including dialogue level and dynamic range control information. Additional key features include frame synchronisation, video proc amp and audio processing with mux/demux. The XVP family comprises a range of HD/SD interfaces that can be easily upgraded in the field to the full XVP-811i specification, thereby simplifying maintenance and minimising infrastructure costs.
The HD-Bridge Dec+ is a new version of Miranda's successful HDV to HD-SDI interface with multiple new features for newsgathering, editing, and transmission. The interface's ASI to HD-SDI conversion capability allows long-range monitoring during HDV newsgathering, as well as easy recording and transmission, when it is combined with Miranda's ASI-Bridge CAM HDV to ASI converter.
The HD-Bridge Dec+ also features a genlock input for broadcast applications, as well as 720p24 HDV to 1080p24 HD-SDI conversion for native 24p production and editing. Other new features include an HDV downconverter for SD editing and a simultaneous composite video output for low-cost monitoring.
Multiple new HD monitoring capabilities have been added to the Kaleido-Alto-HD and Kaleido-K2 multi-image display processors. For effective operations in master control, the Kaleido-Alto-HD now offers advanced video and audio probing, including signal black, freeze and luminance too high, audio presence, overload, mono and out of phase alarms. These alarms can be reported on-screen or via SNMP to other monitoring devices such as Miranda's iControl for logging and strategic monitoring views. The Kaleido-Alto-HD can be combined with the new Allegro RGB high-quality, real-time MPEG-4 streaming encoder to provide 10-channel remote monitoring and production over IP.
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