Monthly Archives: January 2011

Industry Press Releases

BON Monitors Available in the U.S.

DVEO Signs Agreement to Distribute Multi Function Color Accurate Studio Monitors from BON Electronics, Inc.

Professional Multi Function LCD Monitors for Broadcast, Quality Monitoring, Field Operations, and Video Editing are Now Shipping

San Diego, California — DVEO, the broadcast division of Computer Modules, Inc. (CMI), announced today that it has entered into a reseller agreement with BON Electronics, Inc., a manufacturer of multi format LCD broadcast monitors for master control, field, or studio use.

DVEO is now reselling BON Electronics’ exceptional line of professional-grade LCD monitors designed for broadcasters, video editors, and video animators. These monitors are full-featured with all requested options. BON Electronics offers a wide range of these monitors, including field monitors, quad input monitors, and EBU Class 1 and 2 studio monitors. The focus of EBU Class 1 monitors is quality assurance and video editing workstations at post production houses.

The monitors are available in sizes from five to 55 inches. Supported video inputs include analog (composite or component), DVI, VGA, HDMI (with HDCP) or dual channel HD/SD-SDI.
BON Electronics monitors feature color calibration software, selectable gamma modes, and selectable color spaces to match various broadcast standards. A dual display and split screen function with Freezing mode enables two input signals to be displayed side by side. Other useful features include waveform and vector scope display, focus assist, video range check, and an audio level meter.

“We are proud to recommend BON Electronics monitors to our customers,” said Laszlo Zoltan, Sales Manager for DVEO. “BON Electronics has been developing innovative studio monitors for almost 25 years. These are well-designed post production oriented monitors that display video and audio levels, color coordinates, and picture in a picture, or picture and a picture.”

“We are very pleased that DVEO has added our monitors to their extensive line of broadcast products,” commented Daniel Lim, Executive Director for BON Electronics, Inc. “We look forward to a very successful partnership.”

DVEO is a trademark of Computer Modules, Inc.
All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

For more information on CMI and DVEO, please contact Rebecca Gray at +1 (858) 613-1818 or rebecca@dveo.com. To download DVEO’s press releases and product images, visit the news section at http://www.dveo.com/.

Industry Press Releases

Matrox HD Scan Converter with Genlock

Matrox Announces HD-SDI Scan Converter with Genlock and Region-of-Interest Support at $1495

Matrox Convert DVI Plus lets broadcasters easily and economically get Skype, YouTube, and mobile phone videos to air

Montreal, Canada – January 25, 2011 – Matrox® Video Products Group today announced Matrox Convert DVI Plus, an SD/HD SDI scan converter with high-end features priced at just $1495 US. Matrox Convert DVI Plus lets broadcasters easily and economically take the computer-based content that is quickly becoming a key part of the nightly news to air. It’s ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as Skype, YouTube, Google Earth, video games, and web browser sessions, as well as citizen journalists’ mobile phone videos. Matrox Convert DVI Plus is also the perfect appliances to drive projectors and large displays at live events and in houses of worship.

“We stunned the market last year by offering the world’s first HD-SDI scan converter with genlock at just $995. Matrox Convert DVI was an award winner at both NAB and IBC and an immediate hit with broadcasters and A/V integrators in houses of worship,” said Alberto Cieri, Matrox senior director of sales and marketing. “For 2011 we’ve taken the product line a step further with Matrox Convert DVI Plus that features the most-requested enhancements including more comprehensive region-of-interest support and background color selection capability to facilitate downstream keying applications.”

Matrox Convert DVI Plus controls are provided via an intuitive PC-based graphical user interface which can include a live preview pane for scaling and positioning in context. By simply dragging a mouse, rather than fiddling with buttons on the unit itself, you can choose to output the entire screen or a region-of-interest of any size. Premium features such as a flicker reduction filter, customizable presets with user-assignable hotkeys, password protection, SD pixel aspect ratio compensation, and a stand-alone mode ensure optimal flexibility for many different applications.

Product Demonstration Webinar

Registration is now open for two identical sessions of the Matrox Convert DVI Plus webinar which will be held February 10. The webinar will include a comprehensive product demonstration and tips and tricks to help attendees make the most of computer-based content in broadcast and live event applications.


Key features of Matrox Convert DVI Plus

· DVI-D input up to 1920 x 1200

· Digital outputs: HD/SD SDI

· Analog outputs: HD/SD analog component, S-Video, and composite

· SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level genlock with timing offset controls

· Simultaneous analog and digital video output

· Stereo audio input can be embedded into the SDI output signal

· Realtime hardware upscaling and downscaling with proper color space and aspect ratio conversion

· Region-of-interest support including scaling, positioning, and panning with realtime output update

· Background color selection including super black and super white for downstream keying applications

· Can operate as a stand-alone appliance

· Advanced features such as an anti-flicker filter, customizable presets, password protection, and SD pixel aspect ratio compensation

· Three-year hardware warranty and complimentary telephone support


Price and availability
Matrox Convert DVI Plus, priced at $1495 US (£1049, €1299) not including local taxes, will be available in March 2011 through a worldwide network of authorized dealers.

Consumer HD, Technical Info

S3D

Your grandfather’s 3D.

S3D is short for Stereoscopic 3D. S3D requires viewers to wear special glasses in order to experience illusion of depth It is different from 3D computer generated animation that has been known as “3D.”

A “3D” animated film can also be in S3D, but it does not have to be.

Post Production, Production, Technical Info

Convergence in S3D Systems

Cross your cameras.

Convergence or toe-in in stereoscopic 3D camera systems is a term used to describe the inward rotation of one or both cameras along the vertical axis. When two stereoscopic cameras are converged on a subject, subsequent viewing of the recorded material will result in the subject appearing to be placed on the screen plane.

The terms is also (erroneously) used in post production to describe horizontal image translation (HIT). HIT manipulation can approximate on-set convergence. It is often used in conjunction with parallel camera recording for greater control over the final image.

D-cinema, Technical Info

LUT

Lookup table is like a dictionary for color.

In digital imaging systems color is recorded using numerical values. The numerical values represent intensities or coordinates of the color space in use by the system. Often times red, green and blue (RGB) color model is used to represent color.

Let say you have an image editing program on your computer and are able to create a solid color with RGB value of 0, 100, 0. This value would create a certain green color on your screen. Let’s assume you like this color. In fact you like it so much that you go down to the hardware store and ask the associate in the paint section to mix you a can of 0, 100, 0 green.

Although the color system they use in the hardware store may have a color expressed with 0, 100, 0 value, your numbers would certainly not produce the same color you saw on your computer monitor. The numerical values are unique to the color space your system uses.

LUTs (lookup tables) are used to translate numerical values from one color space to another so color perceptual intent can be maintained across different imaging systems. In plain speak, a LUT helps your green stay green whether it’s on the screen, digital projector or in a can of paint. If color spaces are foreign languages, a LUT is a dictionary.