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Matrox Convert DVI lets you convert high-resolution DVI sources into HD or SD video for broadcast, display, and recording.
It takes your DVI output and converts it to high-quality SDI and analog video simultaneously. You get a variety of high-end features at a low price. Matrox Convert DVI lets you output your entire computer screen or focus on details in a region of interest of any size within the larger resolution. Genlock with timing offset controls, an advanced downscaling algorithm, a flicker reduction filter, and one-to-one pixel mapping ensure optimal quality and flexibility.

Matrox Convert DVI is a multi-purpose device. It’s ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as video games, PowerPoint presentations, YouTube videos, Google Earth animations, and web browser sessions. It’s a user-friendly way to create software application training videos. It’s the perfect appliance to drive projectors and large displays at live events and in houses of worship. And it’s a very low-cost HD preview monitoring solution for video editors using applications such as Avid Media Composer.

In applications where the DVI signal is not coming from a computer, but from a camera or medical device for example, Matrox Convert DVI can operate independently of a PC to deliver SDI and analog video.

Key Features

• DVI input up to 1920 x 1200
• Digital outputs: HD/SD SDI
• Stereo audio input can be embedded into the SDI output signal
• Analog outputs: HD/SD analog component, S-Video, and composite
• Simultaneous analog and digital output
• SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level genlock with timing offset controls
• Realtime HD to SD hardware downscaling with proper color space and aspect ratio conversion
• Region of interest output support
• Anti-flicker filter
• Can operate as a stand-alone appliance

Input
Matrox Convert DVI accepts common DVI-D signal resolutions up to 1920x1200. A third-party HDMI to DVI adapter lets you use Matrox Convert DVI with compatible HDMI sources.

Output
Matrox Convert DVI provides a full complement of outputs including HD/SDSDI, HD/SD analog component, S-Video, and composite. Your choice of analog output and the SDI output are simultaneously live.

Supported output standards:

• NTSC
• PAL
• HD 1280x720p at 50 and 59.94 fps
• HD 1920x1080i at 25 and 29.97 fps
• Audio support

Matrox Convert DVI accepts stereo audio input. The audio input is routed to the audio output for monitoring and is embedded into all eight channels of the SDI signal.

Genlock
Matrox Convert DVI can be genlocked to a SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level genlock source. Horizontal and vertical timing offset controls can be used to align your video output relative to your external genlock source to compensate for cable delays within your facility.

High-quality hardware downscaling
Matrox Convert DVI will output full resolution 1080i HD video or you can choose to downscale to 720p or SD. Proper conversion of the HD color space to the SD color space and proper aspect ratio conversion to anamorphic, letterbox, and center cut are provided.

Region of interest
Matrox Convert DVI lets you output your entire computer screen or focus on details in a region of interest of any size within the larger resolution. The region of interest can be selected by entering screen coordinates or by simply clicking and dragging your mouse over the area you want to output. If your region of interest is larger than your selected output standard, Matrox Convert DVI will automatically downscale it to fit.

Flicker reduction
Matrox Convert DVI provides a anti-flicker filter to reduce artifacts that result from converting progressive images to interlaced video, resulting in a more stable output.

Stand-alone mode
Matrox Convert DVI is controlled and configured by a PC-based user interface via a USB connection. Once configured, the box can be programmed to behave as a stand-alone appliance so that the control PC can then be disconnected. This lets you use another DVI device as your input such as a camera, Mac computer, medical device, or even another PC. When Convert DVI is in standalone mode, the settings cannot be tampered with and configuration information is maintained when the unit is turned off.

System Requirements PC
For initial configuration, Matrox Convert DVI requires a computer running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate (32- and 64- bit), or Windows 7 Home Premium (32- or 64-bit), or Windows XP Professional (32-bit) with Service Pack 3, one free USB 2.0 port, and a device that outputs a supported DVI-D signal.

Once Convert DVI has been configured, it can be used in stand-alone mode. In stand-alone mode, the only requirement is a DVI device which outputs a supported DVI-D signal.

System Requirements Mac
For initial configuration, Matrox Convert DVI requires a computer running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or Mac OS x 10.7 (Lion), one free USB 2.0 port, and a device that outputs a supported
DVI-D signal.

Once Convert DVI has been configured, it can be used in stand-alone mode. In stand-alone mode, the only requirement is a DVI device which outputs a supported DVI-D signal.Specifications

• General: Works with DVI devices such as computers, cameras, and medical devices
• Video standards: NTSC, PAL, NTSC-EIAJ, 1080i, 720p
• Regulatory compliance: FCC Class A, CE Mark Class A, C-Tick Mark, VCCI RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC
• Dimensions: 134mm (L) × 161mm (W) × 45mm (H)
• External AC/DC adapter: 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz
  • Input: IEC320-C8 inlet
  • Output: +5V DC, 3A max., 2.5mm barrel type
  • Dimensions: 95mm (L) × 54mm (W) × 32mm (H)
• Total power consumption: 10 watts

Connections

• DVI input and output: DVI-I (single-link) 29-pin female connector
• Audio input: 1/8" stereo minijack
• Genlock reference input:
  • SD analog black burst (bi-level) or
  • HD tri-level sync
  • BNC connector (75 O), terminated
  • Timing offset controls provided
• SDTV SDI output:
  • SD-SDI with 8 channels of embedded SDI audio
  • 24-bit, 48 kHz
  • BNC connector (75 O)
  • Compliant with SMPTE 259M-C, SMPTE 272M
• SDTV S-Video & composite video output:
  • PAL, NTSC, NTSC-EIAJ
  • Frequency response: +/- 0.25 dB max to 5 MHz 2T pulse
  • response: 0.5% max
  • Diff. Gain and Diff. Phase: < 2%
  • BNC connectors (75 O)
• SDTV analog component video output:
  • Betacam, Betacam SP (NTSC & NTSC-EIAJ)
  • SMPTE/EBU N10 (PAL)
  • Frequency response Y:
  • +/- 0.25 dB max to 5 MHz
  • Frequency response Pb, Pr:
  • +/-0.2 dB max to 2 MHz
  • Component channel delay: +/- 3 ns
  • Component S/N (Y, Pb, Pr): > 54 dB,
  • unified weighted
  • BNC connectors (75 O)
• HDTV SDI output:
  • HD-SDI with 8 channels of embedded SDI audio
  • 24-bit, 48 kHz
  • Compliant with SMPTE 292M, SMPTE 299M
  • BNC connector (75 O)
• HDTV analog component video output:
  • Supported video formats:
  • 1080i 50, 1080i 59.94, 720p 59.94
  • Compliant to EIA-770.3
  • Frequency response Y:
  • +/- 0.3 dB max to 28 MHz
  • Frequency response Pb, Pr:
  • +/- 0.4 dB max to 14 MHz
  • Component channel delay: +/- 0.5 ns
  • Component S/N (Y, Pb, Pr): > 57 dB,
  • unified weighted
  • BNC connectors (75 O)
• Accessories:
  • MXO cable – DVI and system audio
  • loop-through, 1 meter
  • External AC-DC adapter
  • Power cord
  • Y/C video adapter