Ryder Cup goes HD with Charter Broadcast

Charter Broadcast has chosen two Eyeheight canalettoHDi colour correctors to provide high-definition television coverage of the 36th Ryder Cup golf tournament.
The tournament will be held September 22-24 at Straffan, County Kildare.
John Mander, Charter Broadcast's Senior Broadcast Engineer commented: "CanalettoHDi was the ideal choice. It is easy to use, compact and versatile, providing full digital colour correction in 1920 x 1080 HD, including individual gain, lift and gamma control of each colour component. We are using the units in a colour correction role rather than as legalisers."
In addition to its versatile RGB adjustment facilities, canalettoHDi allows overall adjustment of luma, chroma gain, and black level together with overall hue corrrection. An integral legaliser incorporates automatic luma overshoot suppression and undershoot control. CanalettoHDi employs 10-bit processing and incorporates six flash-RAM user memories. Two units can optionally be accommodated in the full-rack width version. Inputs and outputs are at 1.5 gigabit/s HD-SDI and conform fully to SMPTE-274. The colour corrector is available in half or full rack-width configurations.
Charter Broadcast was founded in 1989 and provides custom-built television systems, digital radio cameras and dry hire services to outside broadcast and television production companies.
A world-leading innovator in the design of multiformat broadcast equipment, Eyeheight manufactures and sells serial digital video and digital audio products for use in transmission, digital edit suites, telecine, graphics, studios, dubbing and associated areas.
All Eyeheight systems are based on a standard modular platform for easy connection to other products in the range and to external automation.
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