Set / Report Calendar Date; Transparent State; Null State - evertz hd9084 Instruction Manual

HD9084 HDTV Caption Encoder Manual
America observe Daylight Saving Time according to the following rule: ON in the summer; starting on
the second Sunday in March. OFF in the winter; starting on the first Sunday in November. Other parts
of the world follow different rules for DST.
4.3.11.

Set / Report Calendar Date

This command will return the current calendar date or will allow the internal calendar date to be set.
The encoder will maintain the correct date even through power outages.
Command: ^Ad<cr>
Example results:
Local date is: Jan/09/2000 Mon.
Command: ^Ad<sp>U<cr>
Example results:
UTC date is: Jan/10/2000 Mon.
Command: ^Ad<sp>mm/dd/yyyy<sp>day of week<sp>U<cr>
Example: ^Ad<sp>01/26/2000<sp>4<cr>
Set local date to January 26, 2002 and day is Wednesday.
^Ad<sp>03/25/2001<cr>
Set local date to March 25, 2003. No day of week indicated.
^Ad<sp>12/21/2001<sp>7<sp>U<cr>
Set UTC date to December 21, 2003.
4.3.12.

Transparent State

In Transparent state, incoming line 21 video in the respective data stream will be copied to the output.
Command: ^A7<sp>fx<cr>
^A7<sp>dc<cr>
Default: ^A7<sp>F1<cr>
In the first form of the command, the optional parameter fx identifies the field (i.e. all streams in that
field) that will be placed in the transparent state.
In the second form of the command the parameter dc identifies the data stream that will be placed in

transparent state.

Examples: ^A7<sp>F1<cr>
^A7<sp>C1<cr>
^A7<sp>T2<cr>
^A7<sp>XD<cr>
4.3.13.

Null State

In the Null state, the encoder will insert Null characters for the selected data stream into line 21.
Incoming line 21 video will not be copied through on the data stream.
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Field 1 in transparent state.
Captions 1 in transparent state.
Text 2 in transparent state.
XDS stream in transparent state.
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