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Calibre Vantage HD Video Processor - (Ex-Demo Unit)
 Release date: 30 November 2005 from HD Audio Visual
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| Please contact us directly. LAST UNIT LEFT - DEMO MODEL CLEARANCE with FULL 1 YEAR WARRANTY.
THE FOLLOWING UPGRADE/ADD-ON OPTIONS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE (at additional cost) -upgradable to the latest HD2 Model -2 x HDMI 1.3 add on module.
Vantage-HD gets to the very heart of this problem by a combination of expert video engineering design from Calibre together with the awesome power of its 1-Teraflop DSP processor - the Silicon Optix Realta HQV.

The perfect image makeover for your home theater: Vantage-HD is a state of the art digital image processor which provides market leading HD & SD per-pixel multiple low-angle aperture-adjusted motion-adaptive de-interlacing and automatic film pull-down correction for 3:2, 2:2 and non-standard and broken cadences, significantly outperforming the capabilities of benchmark competitor products.
The heart of your home theater system: Vantage-HD features studio-grade image processing algorithms from Teranex for the very best scaling, film and video noise reduction, MPEG artifact reduction and automatic audio time-line correction to maintain lip-sync.
No separate switcher needed: Vantage-HD is a very flexible video and audio router with multiple HDMI and analog input channels, digital, analog and optical audio support and optional HD-SDI compatibility.
So much more than just a scaler: Vantage-HD has special algorithms for plasma image enhancements, significantly reducing plasma noise and improving grayscale reproduction. Image quality on large-screen LCDs are also much improved by Vantage-HD. For projectors, Vantage-HD features the sharpest most flexible keystone correction on the market and there is also an image warping option available for complex geometric correction.
VANTAGE HD FEATURES
- True 1080i to 1080p De-interlacing
Vantage-HD uses the full four-field processing window for HD video de-interlacing and cadence detection, preserving the rich details in HD imagery.
- Noise Reduction
A fully automatic per-pixel adaptive software algorithm that adds a new dimension of pixel-by-pixel noise and motion measurement, detecting and reducing the analog and MPEG noise that currently plagues DVD and broadcast sources while maintaining full image fidelity.
- Detail Enhancement
Watching standard-definition (SD) images on HD displays often produces a blurring effect resulting in a disappointing visual experience. Vantage-HD detail enhancement improves the image detail on a pixel-by-pixel basis, delivering SD that approaches HD quality.
- Automatic Per Pixel Video/Film Detection
Vantage-HD delivers cinema-like quality by making pixel-level decisions, thus precisely processing film pixels as film and video pixels as video.
- Automatic Film Mode Cadence Processing
A quantum improvement in automatic handling of film and video sources such as 3:2 and 2:2 sequences common to broadcast and DVD.Vantage-HD is first to offer 3:2 insertion at HD, an important requirement of the new HD Blu-Ray™ and HD-DVD™ formats coming soon to the consumer market.
- 16 to 1024-Tap Adaptive Scaling
Vantage-HD delivers unprecedented image scaling quality by providing the industry’s first 16 to 1024-tap adaptive over-sampling scaling engine to maintain the highest image quality.
- True 10-Bit Processing
Vantage-HD offers complete input to output 4:4:4 color processing and a full 10-bit or better internal data path, enabling the rendering of over 1 billion colors.
- Flexibility Audio Router
Vantage-HD enables each SPDIF Coaxial, Optical or Analog audio channel to be paired with any video channel, it is even possible to reallocate a separate audio channel to run with HDMI video in case you don't want to run HDMI audio.
- Beyond HQV Reference Design
Vantage-HD is not just base on the standard Silicon Optix HQV reference design, but with far more input/output capabilities, user friendly OSD, better image processing capabilities, more user configurability and controllability such as supports far more native display resolutions,configurable 59.94Hz, 50Hz and dynamic 59.94Hz/50Hz refresh rate modes, option input modules and whole lot of preload algorithms/filters!
- Future Proof
Abundant processing power ready for processing 2 streams of 1080p video
Next generation HDMI 1080p input/output ready
Optional HDMI and HD-SDI input module release in Q1 2006
Programmable video-processing algorithms
Upgradable firmware, features such as PIP, test patterns, gamma correction already plan
No more trade in and box swap!
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Inputs:
2 x Composite Video
2 x S-Video
2 x Component Video
2 x HDMI w/ HDCP
1 x 15 pins D-sub
2 x Toslink Audio
2 x S/PDIF Coaxial Audio
2 x 2 Channel Analogue Audio
1 x SPARE SLOT for future upgrade to add (at extra cost) an additional 2 x HDMI ports, OR 1 x HD-SDI port
Supported Input Formats: 480i (525i), 576i (625i), 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080psf, 1080p24, 1080p25, 1080p30, 1080p50, 1080p60
VESA graphic from 640 x 480 to 1280 x 1024

Outputs: 1x Analog RGBHV via 15HDD connector
1 x HDMI with HDCP
1 x TosLink Audio
1 x S/PDIF Coaxial Audio
1 x 2 channel Analog Audio
Supported Output Formats: Selectable from 640x480, 800x600, 825x480, 853x480, 1024x768,1024x1024,1280x720, 1280x768, 1280x1024, 1366x768, 1366x1024, 1400x788, 1400x1050, 1920x1080
User Controls: Front-mounted navi-keypad with On-screen display
Remote control via IR Remote (included)
RS232 serial control for use with third party control systems
USB port for uploading firmware updates
Preload Algorithms/Filters: SD MPEG spider & block noise reduction
SD temporal noise filter
HD temporal noise filter
Multiple low-angle motion adaptive de-interlacing
Adaptive contrast enhancement
Cross chrominance suppression
Chroma upsampling error correction
Interlace chroma correction
Flexview aspect ratio conversion
Silicon Optix' image scaling and image warping for extreme keystone correction
Power Requirements: 100-240V AC (power pack)
Size: 42 (W) x 55 (D) x 9(H) mm
Warranty: ONE year RTB (cover parts and labour)
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