Dedicated format, conversion processing, warping and edge-blending solutions across three distinctive product groups

Bradford, Yorkshire, UK, 25 March 2010 – Calibre UK announces the powerful new PVProHD-IW  professional HD HQV image scaler with warping, rotation and edge blend for use in a virtually unlimited range of projection applications. 
The PVProHD-IW has set a new industry standard with its easy to use warp capability, superb scaling, broadcast grade de-interlacing, outstanding noise reduction and image enhancement with all the control and high-quality advanced features that are expected from a Calibre image processing product.

Warping of any projector images can be performed for projection onto many surfaces including extreme off-angle projection, curved screens and unusual or non-geometric shapes and is seamlessly set-up from a standard laptop or PC. PVProHD-IW intuitively recalculates warp parameters as required to suit input resolution changes, aspect ratio, height, width and overscan adjustments without the need to load a separate warp map for each input configuration.

The blending of multiple projectors is performed using Calibre’s proprietary algorithms which allow precise control of blend S-curve, gamma and blend region width and can work with 1, 2, 3 or 4 blend regions per projector.

Black level correction is also provided with independent control of up to 9 regions with 10-bit adjustment of granularity, importantly blend processing is 16-bit accurate for de-gamma, blend, black level correction and re-gama to ensure crisp, clean images without introduction of black level noise or greyscale banding.

In presenting the product for the first time to a broadcast audience at NAB in Las Vegas, Tim Brooksbank, Chairman of Calibre UK adds: “our flagship PVProHD broadcast grade products are already in use in a number of extremely high profile North American applications, and we look forward to welcoming visitors and customers on our stand  to introduce them to our new PVProHD-IW product and its powerful image warp and blend capabilities for the broadcast and ProAV display environment.”

The PVProHD-IW will be shown on the Calibre UK booth, N617 at NAB.