Product category: PC-Compatible Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Anchor Bay Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 May 2006
Deinterlacing delivers higher image quality
DVDO is shipping its new Precision Deinterlacing card featuring ABT's Video Reference Series (VRS) technology for the iScan VP30
DVDO, by Anchor Bay Technologies announces first customer shipments of the new Precision Deinterlacing card featuring ABT's Video Reference Series (VRS) technology for the iScan VP30. VRS Precision Deinterlacing delivers the image quality demanded by today's large-screen, high-resolution displays.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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It eliminates many of the artefacts found in common deinterlacers to produce a smooth image, free of artefacts such as jagged edges and combing.
VRS Precision Deinterlacing features five-field motion-adaptive deinterlacing and edge-adaptive processing for video sources, along with advanced cadence detection for film and animation sources.
All processing is performed at full 10bit resolution to preserve all the detail and subtle nuances in the video source.
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Edge-adaptive processing uses an adaptive, continuous-angle detection algorithm to accurately identify and smooth image edges.
Unique 'any-cadence' processing automatically locks to the wide variety of film and animation cadences found in current video sources, including nonstandard cadences, and will track right through many types of 'bad edits' and cadence changes.
Sports fans will appreciate the motion-adaptive and edge-adaptive deinterlacing which preserves the image detail while eliminating ragged edges on low angle diagonals, and flicker.
The resulting picture is smooth and free of digital artefacts.
Other special features include the ability to correctly detect multiple source types within a frame (eg video titles over film), and compensation to minimise artefacts caused by sequence breaks in film content.
Gamers will also be pleased to hear that the card features two different 'game modes'.
In many competing processors the effects of applying complex algorithms to the video image results in upwards of a seven frame delay.
This can inhibit the 'real-time' performance for gamers who want instantaneous response to react to stimuli and to realise peak performance from their application.
The Precision Deinterlacing card offers two modes: 'Game Mode 1' limits the delay to less than one frame and 'Game Mode 2' adds less than two frames of delay, while still performing edge adaptive processing.
The Precision Deinterlacing card is available for $499, and will be available through all authorised DVDO reseller channels.
MSRP of the DVDO iScan VP30 is $1999 and features all the current VRS technologies.
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