Your Plasma TV and HDTV specialist

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Vantage-HD now brings Calibre's huge wealth of video processing expertise to the home theater market, It runs state of the art video processing algorithms from Teranex ((US$50k up) using the highly acclaimed Silicon Optix Realta Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) processor. It accepts input up to 1080p, deinterlace, remove noise/artiface and scale to 1080p ooutput at a price below a top DVD player!

Features:

True 1080i to 1080p De-interlacing Vantage-HD uses the full four-field processing window for HD video deinterlacing 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 test patterns, gamma correction already plan
No more trade in and box swap!