Barco’s new OverView D projection series and Digital Streaming Video solution based on Texas Instruments DLP™ and DSP technology to be showcased at IBC 2003 in Amsterdam
Texas Instruments digital video processing technology enables new Barco products to offer optimum flexibility, reliability and efficiency for broadcast and video production.
(Dallas and Brussels – Sept 12, 2003) Continuing to provide and enable industry-leading solutions for broadcast and video professionals, Barco and Texas Instruments (NYSE – TXN) today announced that they will be presenting demonstrations of new Barco professional broadcast and digital streaming video products on the Barco stand (Hall 1, stand 45) and TI stand (Hall 1, stand 371) at IBC 2003 in Amsterdam from Sept 12-16. Showcased in live demonstrations, the new Barco products include the OverViewD projection series, based on TI’s cutting-edge DLP™ technology and the Hydra Universal Multi Video Insertion Unit, based on TI’s high-performance, programmable TMS320C64x™ digital signal processor (DSP) core.
Barco’s Hydra Universal Multi Video Insertion Unit gives unique possibilities to control up to 60 analog or digital inputs on one single display simultaneously. Hydra is operated via a standard web browser and features advanced warnings and alarms. One single PC can control numerous networked units that jointly display hundreds of signals. Using a TI TMS320C6415 DSP running at 720 MHz to provide best-in-class performance and digital streaming video capabilities, the Hydra offers a fully integrated yet flexible solution, that gives users full control over each window position as well as the size and content of the sources displayed.
“We are delighted that one of the world’s leading names in video projection systems has chosen our high-performance, programmable C64x™ DSP core for its multi video monitoring solution,” said Jean-Marc Charpentier, Texas Instruments European DSP Business Development Manager. “The C6415 DSP device offers unparalleled real-time processing power that allows developers of media gateways and advanced streaming video infrastructure oriented applications to handle multi-channel MPEG-2 MP@ML video seamlessly.”
“TI’s programmable DSP gives us the power and flexibility to load different algorithms in different sizes for different applications, all on the same board, giving us the multi-standard video streaming board we wanted,” said Ronny Dewaele, Barco Vice-President of Product Management Barco Control Rooms. “The C64x core is undoubtedly the highest performance DSP core on the market, allowing us to decode multiple streams on a single DSP.”
With performance of up to 5760 million instructions per second (MIPS) at a clock rate of 720 MHz and a roadmap to one GHz and beyond, the C64x generation offers cost-effective solutions to high-performance DSP programming challenges. The devices are based on the second-generation high-performance, advanced VelociTI™ very-long-instruction-word (VLIW) architecture (VelociTI.2™ developed by TI), making these DSPs an excellent choice for multichannel, multi-format and multifunction applications. The TMS320C6415 720 MHz DSP is shipping in volume since April 2003.
OverView D series leverages high-contrast DLP technology
Barco has developed the OverView D series projection modules to provide key features to enhance the video/broadcast operator’s comfort within a 24/7 environment. The OverView D Series features TI’s latest high-contrast DLP™ technology for optimal brightness, contrast, color uniformity and wide viewing angles. Barco’s proprietary Optical Dimming technology ensures optimal light coupling between the lamp and the DLP™ chip and also compensates for lamp life, resulting in superior brightness and uniformity. In addition, Barco’s Dynamic Feedback technology allows the display to maintain consistent light output. The OverViewD display systems can be combined by Barco’s proprietary stitching technique, allowing virtually seamless display walls that can be expanded both vertically and/or horizontally to any size, in straight or curved configurations.
The OverView D Series offers extraordinary reliability and lifetime serviceability thanks to a dual redundant lamp design that allows the user 100% reliability and a dust-free design, access to operation and service adjustments through IR remote control and On-Screen Display.
Both the OverViewD series and the Hydra units are available today.
About Barco
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, is active in three key areas of imaging technology. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in almost 100 countries. Barco is quoted on Brussels/Euronext and is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company.
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.ti.com.
About TI DLP™
TI's DLP™ Products division supplies subsystems to virtually all the world's top projection and display manufacturers, who then design, manufacture and market products based on DLP™ technology. Since early 1996, over 2,000,000 DLP™ subsystems have been shipped. DLP™ technology delivers clear, bright, and sharp pictures in a broad range of projection applications including business data projectors, home theater projectors, large screen tabletop TVs, commercial rental and staging systems and digital cinema. For more information, please visit www.dlp.com.
DLP is a trademark of Texas Instruments
