Hdnet's Rescheduled Exclusive Hdtv Coverage Of Shuttle Launch

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Leitch’s X75HD Supports HDNet’s Live High-Definition Coverage Of Space Shuttle Discovery Launch

27th July, 2005

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HDNet used Leitch’s award-winning X75HD multiple path converter/synchronizer as part of the facilities in its exclusive North American HD telecast of the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery.

The X75HDs were on-site at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where HDNet was set to provide complete, launch-to-landing coverage of NASA’s historic Return to Flight in high definition, beginning with Discovery’s liftoff on July 26.

Producing a live, multi-camera, switched high-definition telecast of an historic event of this magnitude requires extensive equipment and technical support. Leitch’s X75HD, which combines up/down/cross conversion, HD frame sync and comprehensive video and audio processing capabilities all in a 1RU package, provides a simple solution to even the most complex applications. HDNet used the X75HD in a number of critical roles including frame synchronization and down-conversion.

“Providing live coverage of this historic event in high definition is an enormously complex broadcast to pull off,” said Philip Garvin, co-founder and general manager of HDNet. “However, by utilizing the best technology available, HDNet was prepared to deliver to our viewers the highest quality pictures ever broadcast of a Space Shuttle launch.”

Video processing features of the X75HD, which was launched to critical acclaim in early 2005, include simultaneous up-conversion and down-conversion with aspect ratio conversion for hybrid standard- and high-definition facilities; level/color proc amp control; optional 3D adaptive color decoding with time base correction; and optional noise reduction. The X75’s 16 channels of internal audio processing include timing with video for lip sync corrections; level control; A/D and D/A conversion; embedded processing for both SDI and HD-SDI serial digital signals and integrated Dolby decompression.

“HDNet is an industry leader in providing viewers with innovative HD programming, and we are extremely proud that they are relying on our technology to facilitate coverage of this historic event,” said Tim Thorsteinson, president and CEO of Leitch Technology.

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