Harris Corporation Announces Key Upgrades
to Videotek HD-STAR Handheld Monitor/Generator
June 30, 2009
Source: Harris Broadcast
New Features Improve Functionality and
Enhance Video and Audio Performance
Harris Corporation announces that important
firmware upgrades are now available for its Videotek HD-STAR
handheld HD/SD-SDI monitor and generator, a portable, battery-powered
tool that provides convenient, yet powerful multiformat functionality
for monitoring and generating video and embedded audio signals.
The new features — input auto format detection and continuous
picture motion in test signal generator patterns — are
now available via a simple download on the Harris Web site.
The new input auto format detection upgrade
allows for a separate format for the test signal generator
and the input monitoring. The monitor automatically detects
the incoming format and adapts the unit to display the correct
HD format when in HD mode (or the correct SD format when in
SD mode), providing significantly enhanced operational capabilities.
The continuous picture motion upgrade provides a bouncing
block at three different selectable speeds. This feature enhances
the test signal generator output and increases the capabilities
of testing MPEG decoders/encoders for interruptions in the
encoding/decoding processes or wherever continuous motion
is required in testing applications.
“The HD-STAR provides both an HD and
SD test generator with monitoring at a very competitive price-point
and, with these upgrades, the unit provides more value than
ever to customers,” said Tim Thorsteinson, president
of Harris Broadcast Communications. “Part of the popular
and award-winning Videotek STAR series of handheld test instruments,
the HD-STAR provides multiformat functionality and versatility
that set it apart from other handheld test and measurement
products on the market. This PDA-sized test monitor offers
the convenience of portability without sacrificing function
and performance.”
With a powerful array of features
and functions that include a video test signal generator,
color monitor, waveform monitor, vectorscope, serial data
analyzer and an audio analyzer/monitor, the HD-STAR also features
an integrated 320x240 color LCD display, utilizing touchscreen
technology and a provided stylus to control and configure
each operation.
The unit weighs less than one pound and runs on a Li-Ion battery
pack, providing continuous operation for more than six hours.
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