Eyeheight compliance legalisers have been selected for use in the ITV broadcast television coverage of the 2018 world football championships which is being hosted by Russia.
A total of eight LE-2M channels housed in two 1U embedded web server chassis are now on site ready for this year’s tournament which commences with a match between Russia and Saudia Arabia on Thursday June 14.
The football championship will culminate in the final on Sunday July 15 at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. A complete rebuild of the stadium was undertaken in 1955 after Russia’s major sporting successes at the 1952 Olympics.
The LE-2M legalisers are designed to ensure that the levels of all signals arriving from onsite cameras or remote feeds are kept safely within a user-specified chroma gamut. This is vital both to ensure compliance with industry-set limits and to prevent overload further along the transmission chain.
Eyeheight compliance products are a permanent element of broadcast and post-production studios around the world. They have been used at many sports-related events, notably for coverage of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, the London Marathon and the Grand National.
The Eyeheight LE-2M auto-detects incoming SD-SDI or HD-SDI video at 1080i/50/59.94, 720p/50/59.84, 625/50 or 525/59.94 and applies the appropriate legalising format. It then ensures that the incoming video is held within user-selected colour-space parameters: RGB, YUV, PAL or NTSC composite, or RGB-and-composite combined. Legalisation can be performed to conform with EBU-R 2003 standard SDI settings and/or 7.5 IRE or 0 IRE pedestal. Six user memories and common presets are provided.
Additional features of the LE-2M legaliser include Eyeheight’s unique clobberRing automatic luma overshoot and undershoot suppression together with luma and chroma gain, black level adjustment, hue rotation, adjustable clipping levels and soft-clipping knee levels. An ‘out-of-gamut’ indication feed displays overshoot or undershoot severity and shows the user where on the picture any signal correction is being performed.
Up to six LE-2M legalisers can be housed in a 1U Eyeheight FB-9E smart chassis with an integral web server and optional FP-9 front control panel.
