e-mediavision.com Exploits the Power of Matrox DSX Developer Products in POINT-HD Telestrator
Montreal, Canada, April 1, 2008 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that e-mediavision.com has chosen the Matrox X.mio card, part of the Matrox DSX™ line of developer products, as the hardware engine for its POINT-HD high definition broadcast telestrator.
POINT-HD is popular with sports, news, and weather commentators in broadcast facilities worldwide, including BskyB, BBC, CH5, Newscorp (FOX), ART, MBC, SBS, and NTV+, as it allows them to easily tell their stories live on air. They can annotate, draw, place, and move animated graphics over live video, using a touch screen. The user interface can be customized to suit individual preferences, allowing non-technical presenters to use the tools effectively with minimal training. Customized graphics can be imported and used as tools within the presenter's interface, giving any program its own unique look and feel.
"Our very first development started out with the Matrox DigiMix boards seven years ago and we have kept our product line up-to-date using the new generation Matrox X.mio cards with relative ease," said Kash Acharya, e-mediavision.com CEO/MD. "The Matrox product is reliable and provides the feature set required to handle SD and HD production formats on a single card, which in turn safeguards clients' investments with our POINT-HD solutions."
e-mediavision.com's products will be demonstrated at NAB 2008 in booth SL11005. The Matrox DSX product line will be demonstrated in booth SL320.
About POINT-HD
POINT-HD is suited for both studio and outside broadcast productions, and the system can be set up quickly with minimum fuss or technical engineering resources. POINT-HD supports both SD and HD formats. The system provides SDI input and SDI key & fill, or graphics keyed over video outputs. POINT-HD outputs are genlocked to the SDI input, which reduces cable requirements for reference signal input and saves on engineering resources by not having to time the output signals at the vision mixer/switcher. POINT-HD allows the presenter's touch screen monitor(s) to be located remotely from the main system unit by use of KVM extenders using CAT5 (300 meters) or fiber optic (10 km) transmission.
About Matrox DSX Developer Products
The Matrox DSX product line combines a full range of professional audio and video hardware components with comprehensive Windows XP- and Linux-based Software Development Kits (SDK) that enable OEMs and developers to create a wide variety of cost-effective products and applications including ingest/playout servers, broadcast graphics systems, NLE systems, automation and master control units, multi-layer compositors, and medical media servers. The open-architecture Matrox DSX developer products leverage scalable CPU and GPU power in conjunction with high performance hardware to lead the industry in I/O density, native codec support, file format versatility, and on-board processing capability.
Key features of the Matrox DSX platforms:
- Modular architecture gives developers the flexibility to meet technical and price targets
- Multi-channel HD and SD video/audio I/O support from a single card
- Extensive native codec support in HD and SD including DV, D10 for IMX, HDV, DVCPRO HD, MPEG-2 4:2:2, MPEG-2 4:2:2:4 YUVA, MPEG HD for XDCAM HD, AVC-Intra for P2, and H.264
- Cross platform file format support - MXF, MOV, AVI, MPG, etc.
- Multi-layer on-board HD scaler/compositor
- Professional realtime effects including sub-pixel 2D/3D DVE, color correction, chroma/luma keying, graphics overlay, smooth speed changes, etc.
- Application development support by a team of dedicated, experienced engineers
About e-mediavision.com
e-mediavision.com, based in London, England, is a world leader in realtime video graphic systems for the sports, news, weather and media markets, as well as multi-image display solutions with its X-View display processors and X-Com control and monitoring system. For more information visit www.e-mediavision.com.
About Matrox
Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores, and CGs. Matrox's Emmy award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, corporate communicators, and videographers worldwide. Founded in 1976, Matrox is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada. For more information visit www.matrox.com/video.
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