Eyeheight Introduces Range Of Compact Legalisers

Eyeheight has announced three additions to its wide range of modular broadcast and post-production equipment.
The LE-2nM, LE-2nS and LE-2nU are fully-featured single-card legalisers housed in a rackmountable or free-standing half-rack-width 1 U chassis with external mains power supply.
An integrated multi-definition RGB and composite legaliser, the LE-2nM is designed for use in post-production and quality-assurance. The LE-2nM conforms to all commonly-used guidelines for legalisation of common TV and film formats.
Legalisation, including luminance ring supression, can be performed in composite, YUV or RGB colour space or in RGB-plus-composite domain.
Independent outputs of the legalised signal and legal/indicate monitor-display are provided. A unique severity display mode is included on monitoring output.
The Le-2nM is supplied as a fully operational system for control via a Java software panel which can run on any Java-equipped PC or Mac platform. User controls include three safe-area cursor generators with configurable cursor colour, transparency and cursor type plus specialist functions for text height and aspect ratio measurement.
Six user memories are incorporated in addition to preset EBU-R 2003 standard SDI legalisation and 7.5 IRE or 0 IRE Pedestal. The user memories can be accessed via two GPI inputs.
A Microsoft .NET platform application is included for configuration of custom cursors. Additional features include adjustable clipping levels (including soft-clipping knee), luma and chromas gain, black level and hue rotation. In addition to its role as a legaliser, the LE-2nM can be used as a blanking generator. Full 10 bit processing is employed throughout. Like all Eyeheight multidefinition products, the LE-2nM is compatible with the 18 video standards currently in use across 525/625 SD as well as 720p, 1080p and 1080i HD.
Model LE-2nU has essentially the same features plus the capability of 1080p dual link operation. Model LE-2nS is a standard definition version.
Demonstrated in prototype at IBC 2009, the LE-2nM, LE-2nS and LE-2nU compact legalisers are available now.
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