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Tektronix Features Products and Solutions from Across the Video Test & Measurement Portfolio, Including the New Portable WFM2200

Tektronix, the market leader in broadcast video test, monitoring and analysis solutions, announced today that the company will be showcasing a wide range of video and audio test solutions at Broadcast Video Expo (BVE), stand G36, which takes place from 14-16 February 2012 at Earls Court 2, London. The Tektronix products on display will address a wide range of applications from its award winning waveform monitors and rasterizers, to file-based content verification tools and QoE & QoS.  Tektronix also announced that the new Handheld Waveform monitor, WFM2200, will also be on display at the show.

On stand G36, Tektronix will be demonstrating its latest firmware for monitoring and measuring 3D signals either as two separate HD-SDI signals or as a level B multiplex within a 3G signal. Display monitoring such as Difference Map, Overlay, Anaglyph and Checkerboard allow operators to easily see the differences between the left- and right-eye signals. Users can then measure the difference between the left-eye and right-eye signals using the Disparity Grid or Disparity Cursors. Visitors to the Tektronix stand can also see the recently introduced SyncVu™ display which provides synchronised views of the left two and right two tiles of the four tile display, allowing users to quickly configure the measurement displays to show left-eye and right-eye views of the signals. Together, these tools (which are available on the WFM8000 and WVR8000 Series) provide a comprehensive set of 3D measurement and monitoring solutions.

Highlights on the Tektronix stand this year include:

·         Tektronix waveform monitors and rasterizers, including the New Portable WFM2200 and the WVM5000 and WVR5000 Series, and the award winning WFM8000 and WVR8000 Series high performance 3G/HD/SD-SDI waveform monitors and rasterizers which provide real-time, automated 3G-SDI Eye pattern display and jitter measurements to help broadcasters and network operators effectively diagnose signal problems and help equipment designers and manufacturers reduce time to market for new 3G-SDI products.  The WFM / WVR8000 Series also offer support for Audio Loudness measurements to the ITU-R BS.1770-1 standard with support for ATSC A/85 recommended practice and EBU R128.  Features include an Audio Loudness Meter, an Audio Loudness Session Display, and the industry’s first Loudness monitoring of Dolby Digital Plus audio, amongst others.

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·         Cerify® SW file-based content verification software for verifying and checking file-based content prior to transmission or use.  Cerify supports most of the formats and standards used in file-based video, and facilitates third-party integration using the CeriTalk API.  Recent upgrades to Cerify SW include added analysis support for AVC-Intra files, as well as new Audio Loudness tests to meet the ITU-R BS.1770 standard.  In addition, the new Cerify Windows Enterprise Solution enables many servers to act as one, offering the flexibility of deploying large Cerify clusters that can process hundreds of files simultaneously while allowing the operational simplicity of provisioning the cluster as if it was one single Cerify unit.

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·         The TG700 Multiformat Video Generator, which offers sync pulse generation and test signal generation for a wide array of analogue and serial digital formats, including high-definition and 3G. The TG700 has a modular architecture that offers the flexibility to meet the single-format and growing multiformat needs of the video professional, and allows up to four modules to be fitted in the mainframe.

·         Tektronix’ new Digital Content Monitoring family, which offers broadcasters and other video service providers the leading solution for identifying and diagnosing Quality of Experience (QoE) problems before they affect viewers.  These real-time monitoring solutions are capable of monitoring video and audio quality on hundreds of channels simultaneously, can generate historical reports with up to 60 days of information and can detect intermittent and critical problems that are often missed by other monitoring tools (including temporary loss of audio/video services, audio silence, video freeze, tiling, macro blocking, pixilation, slow channel changing, and set-top box application errors).

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