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Tech Corner
Articles Found: 18
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Optimizing Your Image with Auto-Image
Setting up a scaler for optimum size, position, clock, and phase adjustments
Posted: Dec 12, 2003
The art or science of calibrating and adjusting video equipment has changed over the years. The number of items to calibrate has grown from settings such as brightness and tint to... Read more
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An Overview of Active vs. Passive UTP Technology
Posted: Oct 22, 2002
The practicality of using UTP (unshielded twisted pair) cable for certain specific high-resolution AV applications, such as long cable runs, existing infrastructure, and limited space, has already been established... Read more
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Tri-Level Sync in a Bi-Level World
by Dave Pincek, Vice President of Product Development
Posted: Jun 7, 2002
The advent of HDTV has brought a number of new concepts and technologies with it. One of the concepts put into practice is tri-level sync. Tri-level sync solves some traditional problems found with bi-level sync... Read more
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Differential Phase and Gain
by Dave Pincek, Vice President of Product Development
Posted: Feb 15, 2002
Composite video is an all-in-one video signal: all the video information is transmitted in one compact signal. With so many components coexisting within the composite signal, there is a tendency for the signals to affect each other in an unwanted manner... Read more
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S-Video Primer
Posted: Dec 5, 2001
Extron's sales staff, who answer the Extron S³ Sales Technical Support Hotline, often receive questions about S-video, its advantages and disadvantages, and its usage. This article... Read more
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The Aspect Ratio Equation
by Dave Pincek, Vice President of Product Development
Posted: Aug 22, 2001
At trade shows, Extron staff members are often asked questions about aspect ratio. Most of these questions have to do with converting between aspect ratios. Other questions involve anamorphic DVDs... Read more
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Scaling Misconceptions
Posted: Jul 12, 2001
Is a scaler a scaler regardless of the brand? Experience teaches us otherwise—the quality of a scaler can vary considerably from one manufacturer to the next. But, don't all scalers... Read more
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UTP Technology
Posted: Mar 7, 2001
In the late 1970s, unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cabling originated in the computer industry as a means of transmitting digital data over computer networks. This cable was designed to be a medium for relatively slow computer data communication... Read more
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