The 2009 NAB Show Booth N2502  

NAB White Paper: Looks Good Leaving Here, Must Be Your Set

by Leigh Whitcomb / Paul Briscoe

Many consumers will tell you that the average quality of television has gone down in recent years — and they’re not just referring to the programming. While some HD content may indeed look pristine in the living room, it’s true that viewers’ perception of a great deal of content is that it’s become somehow worse, despite the broad deployment of digital systems and “HDTV.” Unhappy viewers may change channels, change service providers or even sue if the quality doesn’t meet their expectations. How can this be in the magical digital age? This paper looks into the types of degredations that can reduce the quality of audio and video between creation and the viewer, their impact — technically, perceptually, and artistically — and where they occur in equipment and systems. System design considerations and operational solutions are discussed, including lip sync and use of Active Format Description (AFD) in aspect ratio management.

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Harris Corporation Launches Unique Broadcast Solution to Streamline Data Analysis Process at the 2009 NAB Show

Videotek® TVM-4MA Metadata Analyzer Discovers, Reports, Decodes All Standard Data Types

LAS VEGAS, April 19, 2008 (NAB, Booth N2502) — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, is introducing the Harris® Videotek® TVM-4MA metadata analyzer at the 2009 NAB Show taking place April 20-23 in Las Vegas. Designed for any media facility that needs to verify data presence and confirm detailed data content, the TVM-4MA discovers, reports, monitors and triggers alarms on the ancillary data present in an HD or SD-SDI signal. Read full press release at broadcast.harris.com

Videotek® QuiC™ Media Analysis Server

The Videotek® QuiC™ Media Analysis Server is a fully-automated, file-based test and measurement server platform that verifies the quality of compressed digital content. With QuiC, broadcasters have a more efficient, consistent and cost-effective method of analyzing a long list of parameters in many different formats—before the content is distributed.

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Videotek® TVM-4MA Metadata Analyzer

The Videotek® TVM-4MA metadata analyzer discovers, reports, monitors, and triggers alarms on the ancillary data present in an HD or SD SDI signal, as well as VBI data in SD-SDI signals.

It is designed for anyone who needs to verify data presence and confirm data contents. Other products on the market require a computer for display, or they force the user to scroll through a list of all possible data identifiers to find the ones that are active. As networks make increasing use of the ancillary data space to control downstream equipment and distribute information to affiliates, it is critical to be able to verify the generation and transport of the myriad data types in use.

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