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News: Miranda to Showcase Multiple New HD Monitoring Capabilities (20/3/2006)

      Miranda Technologies Inc. (TSX: MT) today announced multiple new HD monitoring capabilities for the Kaleido-Alto-HD and Kaleido-K2 multi-image display processors, as well as the launch of a new Densite Series HD-SDI signal measurement probe. All these new developments will be on display at NAB2006 booth SU1341.

      For effective operations in master control environments, the Kaleido-Alto-HD multi-image display processor now offers advanced video and audio probing, including signal black, freeze and luminance too high, audio presence, overload, mono, and out-of-phase alarms. These alarms can be reported on-screen, or via SNMP to other monitoring devices such as Miranda's iControl for logging and strategic monitoring views. The Kaleido-Alto-HD is an affordable, high-quality, 10-input multi-image display processor with auto-sensing HD-SDI/SDI/analog video inputs.

      "The Kaleido-Alto-HD can also be used for highly cost-effective, remote production monitoring over IP," said Marco Lopez, vice president of product development at Miranda. "This can be achieved by using the Kaleido-Alto-HD with Miranda's new Allegro RGB real-time MPEG-4 streaming encoder. This combination can deliver high-quality, 10-channel remote monitoring, and this can significantly reduce production manning requirements and costs for major events, such as the Olympics and World Cup."

      Many new monitoring features have also been added to the advanced and highly robust Kaleido-K2 multi-image display processor, including the decoding and on-screen display of Dolby Metadata information, such as channel lineup and the dialog normalization value. In addition, advanced new aspect-ratio control capabilities include on-screen reporting of the Active Format Descriptor (AFD), and automatic reconfiguration of the video windows' aspect ratios from the AFD information.

      The new Densite Series HD/SD SDI Control Probe (HCP-1801) operates with Miranda's iControl end-to-end facility monitoring system to provide highly effective signal measurement, with detection of video freeze, video black, as well as alarming on a host of parameters such as video luma and white levels. The HD Control Probe also performs extensive audio telemetry on up to 16 individual channels, with alarming on parameters such as silence, overload, and level minimum and maximum. In addition, the probe performs analysis and extraction of closed captioning, Dolby E metadata, and AFD. The probe operates with 1080i/720p HD as well as 525/625 SD, and provides streaming video and audio level meters to allow operators to see the signals they are monitoring from a remote location. The HD Control Probe also provides distribution amplification, with four HD/SD SDI outputs.

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