Hamlet Puts Quality Control On Screen

A leading supplier of affordable high precision test and measurement equipment, Hamlet, used this year's IBC show to unveil a number of additions to its range of software-based systems, including dedicated tools to add quality control to PC-based systems, and for detecting content which may cause photo-sensitive epilepsy.
The new Hamlet VidScope-BX is a software suite designed to work with any Blackmagic video or similar device on a standards Windows PC. It gives editors, designers and colourists all the precision technical monitoring they need, whether working in SD, HD or 3Gb/s. Depending on the card, it accepts all common signal formats, including analogue, SDI, dual-link SDI, HDMI and Firewire.
Given a dual-core PC or better, with 3D graphics, it provides the full range of high precision test displays in real time, even with demanding sources such as HDV. It affordably meets the need for accurate quality control.
Certain video sequences, including flashing lights, may be the cause of photo-sensitive epileptic seizures in susceptible viewers. There are now standards, being co-ordinated by the ITU, which determine content which should be detected and trapped. PSE testing to this standard is an established part of the Hamlet ReelCheck software suite.
At IBC, Hamlet launched a standalone software application dedicated to PSE testing: the PSE-Scope.
Steve Nunney, Director of Hamlet, said: "We have well-proven algorithms which reliably detect potentially problematic sequences. With the standards now being imposed in a number of countries our customers were asking for this test specifically, which is why we have now introduced it as a single application product."
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