Testing HDTV products

Tektronix has announced what it claims is the world's first fully-automated component analog video signal analyser that measures high-definition, progressive scan and PC format signals for consumer video equipment manufacturers, video network operators, and others that require fast and repeatable testing.

Consumer electronics designers are incorporating advanced television signal formats and need to quickly test their products' ability to support these signals. The VM5000HD automated video measurement set provides users with a fully automated system that saves time, speeds development by simplifying and standardising testing.

The device provides fast, accurate and repeatable video measurements in 1080i, 720p, 480p and SXGA formats using multiple industry-standard video parameters without the need for complicated instrument set-ups, algorithm selection, time-consuming manual measurements or tedious results correlation.

The instrument can make 100 different parametric measurements in eight specific test categories within 10 seconds so that product performance can be objectively and reliably assessed.

The VM5000HD offers a high-definition matrix test signal set for the creation of standardised test signals including colour bars, multiburst, sweep, and five other signal types, for testing in Y/Pb/Pr and RGB colour space.

Available on a combined set of DVDs and CD-ROMs, in both compressed and uncompressed formats, this expansive library of test signals enables users, with the VM5000HD for parametric testing of consumer video products.