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Chapter 3 gives a detailed description of the operation of the front panel controls, starting with an overview
of the pushbuttons and front panel indicators. The operation of the Upconverter using the optional remote
control panel is identical to the front panel.
Chapter 4 gives an overview of how to update the firmware in the unit and other technical issues.
Items of special note are indicated with a double box like this.
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GLOSSARY
CCIR-601
(This document now known as ITU-R601). An international standard for component digital
television from which was derived SMPTE 125M and EBU 3246-E standards.
defines the sampling systems, matrix values and filter characteristics for both Y, B-Y, R-Y and
RGB component digital television signals.
SERIAL DIGITAL
Digital information that is transmitted in serial form. Often used informally to refer to
serial digital television signals.
4Fsc: Four times subcarrier sampling rate uses in composite digital systems. In NTSC this is 14.3 MHz.
In PAL this is 17.7 MHz.
4:2:2 A commonly used term for a component digital video format.
specified in the CCIR-601 standard. The numerals 4:2:2 denote the ratio of the sampling
frequencies of the luminance channel to the two colour difference channels. For every four
luminance samples, there are two samples of each colour difference channel.
SDI
An abbreviation for serial digital interface, this acronym is most commonly used to refer to
Standard definition serial digital television video signals up to 540 Mb/s.
HDTV An abbreviation for high definition television, this acronym is most commonly used to refer to High
definition serial digital television video signals at 1.485 Gb/s.
AES: (Audio Engineering Society): A professional organisation that recommends standards for the
audio industries.
AES/EBU:
Informal name for a digital audio standard established jointly by the Audio Engineering
Society and the European Broadcasting Union organisations.
ANALOG:
An adjective describing any signal that varies continuously as opposed to a digital signal
that contains discrete levels representing digits 0 and 1.
A-TO-D CONVERTER (ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL):
analog signal into a digital representation of that signal.
BIT:
A binary representation of 0 or 1. One of the quantized levels of a pixel.
OVERVIEW
HD9510UC High Definition Upconverter Manual
A circuit that uses digital sampling to convert an
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CCIR-601
The details of the format are
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