Video Clarity launches 8K gear


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Michelle Clancy

| 08 November 2015





Video Clarity has released the ClearView Extreme 8K video quality analyser and ClearView Player 8K uncompressed 8K/4K/HD/SD recorder and player.


According to IHS, shipments of 8K ultra HD resolution TVs (that's 7,680 x 4,320 pixels) are expected to increase from 2,700 shipped worldwide in 2015 to 911,000 in 2019. The IHS 8K TV forecast hinges on the 65" screen size, which has by far the highest volume in production and will account for almost 80% of 8K TV shipments in 2019.

ClearView Extreme 8K is a video quality analysis system for 8K resolution that enables users to measure and analyse the quality of 8K uncompressed video, using perceptual metrics and side-by-side visual comparison on a single monitor.

"With the number of resolutions, screens and processing methods in content delivery today, anyone who delivers digital content or manufactures signal-processing equipment would do well to test the output of their systems in a lab setting before deploying them -- something that up to now has been impossible to do effectively with 8K content using existing test and measurement systems," said Blake Homan, president and founder of Video Clarity. "With ClearView Extreme 8K, we've invented the first appliance that lets people visually compare 8K video to encoded video so they can understand the effects of different processing scenarios. Because ClearView Extreme 8K can analyze video at any resolution and frame rate, manufacturers and service providers can prepare and test for quality in specific new multiresolution video-delivery scenarios that include 8K. It's another way Video Clarity breaks down barriers to testing and visual analysis for our customers."

Designed for use in labs at television broadcast networks; cable, satellite and IPTV service providers; and television signal-processing product manufacturers; ClearView Extreme 8K allows broadcast engineers and researchers to understand the generational and picture-quality potential of new 8K formats. The analyser's GUI makes it possible to compare 8K source video against its processed counterparts side by side on a single screen. The GUI has interactive features such as zoom and scroll, and other view modes such as A minus B, all of which help users conduct the best-possible analysis. In addition to supporting SD and HD resolutions and frame rates, ClearView Extreme 8K is capable of interactive playback comparison of two uncompressed 8K sequences at up 30 Hz or two uncompressed 4K sequences at up to 60 Hz in real time.

The company also launched the ClearView Player 8K targeted for test labs and broadcast events where a reliable video server is required to play back exact segments of video either in long-form or short-form loop. ClearView Player 8K has all the record and file ingest functions of a full ClearView analyzer system to provide easy preparation of content with a simple playback application for repeated and reliable output of uncompressed UHD video and audio.