Let It Wave On Air: Let It Wave's Super-Resolution Bandlet Technology for HDTV Upconversion is Used by France Television to Broadcast HD Television.PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- Let It Wave's breakthrough HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates upconverter, which incorporates its patented super-resolution bandlet algorithms, is currently producing the 1080i HD signal broadcasted by France Television on channel 50 of the digital terrestrial network in France. Let It Wave's advanced solution delivers amazing HD images from any SD input, thereby reaching an unprecedented level of quality. The 1080i output is absolutely free from "flicker" and "jaggy" artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. , unlike the results achieved with previous state of the art motion adaptive and motion compensation technologies. After an off-air testing of Let It Wave's technology for two weeks during the French Roland Garros international tennis open, Bernard Fontaine, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of France Televisions Interactive, recommended the Public Television group to use Let It Wave product for actual broadcasting. "This very innovative, high quality solution accelerates the introduction of HDTV channel broadcasting by mixing native HD contents with upconverted SD sources, enabling a fast access to HD programming for the public. It is one of the goals of this HD trial" concludes Bernard Fontaine. The HD signal is produced live from France Televion's standard definition channels. The images were first shown on October 13th, and the broadcasting will go on for three months on the HD test channel, HD1, allocated to France Television by the Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel (National authority for television). Five channel from France Television will be upconverted during this experiment: France2, France3, France4, France5 and FranceEo, demonstrating the superior quality of Let It Wave's upconverter on a wide range of sources. Let It Wave's advanced upconverter is based on its FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. product available to OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and broadcast equipment manufacturers. "The success of this trial confirms the quality and reliability of our product. At the next NAB in April 2007, several broadcast equipment manufacturers will offer SD to HD upconverters based on this product"says Stephane Mallat, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Let It Wave. Let It Wave's FPGA product is embedded on a low-cost, low-power Altera device. It includes upconversion from SD to HD with super-resolution deinterlacing and scaling, down and cross conversion, as well as spatio-temporal bandlet noise removal and enhancement. It will be shipping at the end of this year. For more information about Let It Wave and its products, visit our website at www.letitwave.com About LET IT WAVE Let It Wave is an image processing company whose patented bandlet algorithms deliver breakthrough image and video processing capabilities. Let It Wave has raised several million euros in venture capital to develop and commercialize FPGA and ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. products that incorporate its super-resolution bandlet technology. Let It Wave provides high quality SD to HDTV upconversion capabilities, for broadcast, post and consumer electronics manufacturers. |
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