LEADER Prepares For CCW

LEADER has announced it will be appearing at the Content & Communications World expo, which opens today at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York.

Exhibiting on booth 1053, LEADER Instruments Corporation will be represented by Kevin Dunsheath, Tommy Goodson, Robert Levato, Mike Mizusawa, and Masahiro Sawa (President). George Gonos and DonnaMarie Mastrianni will be on the booth to demonstrate the PHABRIX product range.

LV5333 3G-SDI-compatible multi-SDI monitor – Making its first East Coast appearance, the LV5333 is a new multi-SDI monitor designed for use in studios, technical areas or attached to a video camera-support tripod. The LV5333 is compatible with over 20 HD-SDI/SD-SDI signal formats including 3G-SDI. Occupying a 215 x 128 x 63 millimeter housing, the instrument and weighs 1.3 kilograms. It can be powered from battery or a universal mains adapter.

An integral 6.5 inch XGA TFT LCD screen can be used to display video signal waveform, vectorscope or the video image. LEADER's CINELITE II, CINELITE ADVANCED, histogram, gamma display, gamut and level error display functions, which were optional on the previous model (LV5330), are included as standard on the LV5333. Other features include cable length, external timing display and field frequency deviation display.

User-configurable multi-display combinations allow inspection of signal parameters. Full-screen displays can be selected for review of specific elements. Up to 16 channels of embedded audio can be displayed using bar level meters. SDI-embedded audio can be extracted and two user-selectable audio channels sent as AES/EBU to a BNC output; they can also be monitored via the headphone output.

It can display YCbCr, YRGB, YGBR, GBR or RGB luminance waveform, colour vector, five-bar, surround-sound level, status or video source. Freeze mode allows comparison of different SDI input signals. Thumbnail picture display can be selected with other multi-display operating modes for source identification. Input format, colorimetry, black burst or tri-level external reference input are auto-sensed. Any line of the video signal can selected and displayed in waveform, vector or five-bar representations.

LEADER LV5490 SD/HD/4K waveform monitor – A compact handheld test instrument capable of handling an extremely wide range of television standards including SD/HD and 4K. It features a footprint 223 wide by 360 millimeters deep and a height of 189 mm.

Equipped with eight input connectors, the LV5490 accepts up to two 4K signals simultaneously. Recently introduced is the ability to handle the video signals via two-sample interleave as well as square division. In square-division signal mode, the entire image is split into four quadrants and each quadrant is transmitted in turn as a sub-image. In the case of two-sample-interleave, two consecutive pixels are transmitted at a time. The first pair goes to sub-image 1 and the second pair to sub-image 2. The first pair of the next line then goes to sub-image 3, the first pair of the next line going to sub-image 4, and so on. Each sub-image is transmitted separately to the monitor. This type of two-sample interleave is the approved standard for 4K.

Also new to the LV5490 is Focus Assist, which allows checking of low-contrast content and fine image detail. Other new capabilities include a CIE 1931 colour space chart generator. The LV5490 can show 4K signals in the standard's full ITU Recommendation BT.2020 color space.

LV5490 operators can adjust the size of up to four displays on the screen to suit specific tasks. This allows easy magnification and inspection of detail on the instrument's 9 inch 1920 x 1080 HD LCD display screen instead of being limited to fixed size quadrants.

LEADER LT4600 3G/HD/SD-SDI test signal generator – A multi-format video generator in a compact 1U half-rack size. It operates in (3G-SDI/HD-SDI/SD-SDI) format triple-rate SDI. The LT 4600 can produce test patterns, colour bars such as SDI check field, a superimposed logo ID character of QVGA size and safe-area markers. Additional features analog black output for all the three SDI signal formats, plus an 48 kHz AES/EBU embedded digital audio feed synchronized to the video signal. Up to 10 operating configurations can be saved in the internal memory.

PHABRIX Sx TAG hand-held video/audio analyzer/monitor – The Sx TAG is a hand-held video/audio analyser/monitor with support for a range of signal formats and display standards. Compatible with SD, HD and 3G-SDI, it incorporates analogue, SDI and optical ports. It can be upgraded to an Sx TAGC, which includes a fully functional generator across all standards. An integral video cage generator supports a range of SFP optical transceivers.

All other instruments in the PHABRIX Sx series have been upgraded to support Dolby E, Dolby D and Dolby D Plus via an easy to install option key. An audio/video generator is also added across the Sx product range.

PHABRIX Rx 3G/HD-SDI rasterizer, V9.01 – A modular rack-mounting system available in three chassis types: a 2U version with two integral screens and two rasterizers, the 1U Rx1000 and the Rx 500 1U half rack. The Rx can route its rasterized output through both HDMI and SDI at 1920 x 1080.

Up to eight channels SDI sources can be monitored and logged. Up to 4 of these can be displayed simultaneously using a complement of 30 toolsets on one rasterized output. The rasterized output is presented in full resolution 1920 x 1080 as HDMI and 3G/HD-SDI, including audio. Test screens conducive to the operator's specific workflow can be configured quickly. The HDMI output enables local instrumentation display. The 3G/HD-SDI rasterized output permits routing of the rasterized display to any point in the facility. The Rx is also KVM-ready, allowing modern facilities to centralize and share the instrument across all facility test points.

With the release of V9.01, the Rx now offers enhanced closed-caption support, frame capture and playback. Four channel simultaneous support for video, audio, 608/708 and Loudness are also provided. Full Dolby decode of Dolby E, Dolby D and Dolby D plus also makes the Rx an attractive proposition wherever Dolby transmission is mainstream.

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