PHABRIX Announces New V9.2 Rx Range At BVE

PHABRIX will be at BVE London on stand P39 this year with the latest software release for its innovative Rx rack mount range.

The Rx is available in three chassis types, the 2U Rx 2000 with dual integrated screens and the 1U Rx 1000 and the half rack 1U Rx 500. Each chassis displays instruments via SDI or usefully by HDMI at 1920 x 1080 resolution. The ability to display up to 20 instruments simultaneously on each of the four channel inputs has not gone unnoticed by the broadcast networks.

The release of V9.2 coincides with the installation of a major system into one of America’s primary networks as a QC solution.

The unique ability to link each of the Rx's via simple KVM allows the hardware to stay in the engineering bay and each Rx is routed by keyboard and mouse to multiple engineers.

The new features on show at BVE include several additional toolsets to enhance the already extensive support for both video and audio providing a 'one box' solution in a cost effective package.

Dolby decode and metadata reporting has been enhanced to include Dolby E, Dolby D and Dolby D plus.

It is however in the handling of multiple audio channels where the Rx becomes a show stopper. The new audio mix-down instrument is available to quickly identify audio routing from embedded, AES and Dolby sources.

The user can select L and R channel sources or mute channels if required to identify audio at any time. The new Loudness instrumentation which is included as standard, supports single channel logging but can be extended to four channel with the addition of an option code.

The video analysis and generator toolsets have also seen significant additions. The onboard generator now provides direct system timing adjustment, useful when you have a four channel system. Frame grab has been included, which can be both manual and fault triggered to disk for analysis. At any time the video frames saved can be recalled and used via the generator.

The picture view too has new on screen display of AFD, V chip indication, closed caption 608/708, OP47 and WST teletext. With a single mouse click the system provides full native resolution view of a picture or full recall of a multi view of instruments via 99 presets to a pre saved selection, giving the engineer a single point of quality control within any application.

The Rx also supports up to four channels via fibre network through its SFP cage inclusion as part of the standard build.

The Sx range hand held is also on display. The PHABRIX SxE with its on board eye and jitter toolsets continues to succeed with its unrivalled multi format generator incorporated within the analyser and monitoring toolsets with full physical layer analysis.

Released at NAB last year, the TAG with its SDI and analogue toolsets and fibre optic support has found a new following from many pro video engineers and has been further enhanced for both MSA and non MSA SFP support.

The article is also available to read in BFV online.

(IT/JP)