Telestream is expanding its test and measurement tools for content creation and delivery. These developments apply to the company’s Prism waveform monitors, SPG9000 sync pulse and test signal generators, and Argus centralised video monitoring systems. Beyond supporting ST 2110 deployments, these enhancements will also help creators transition to mainstream HDR production and allow service providers to expand their reach.
“The new Prism, SPG9000, and Argus capabilities we are introducing at NAB Show 2025 are the direct result of close customer partnerships and the need for practical solutions to today’s challenges delivering high quality media,” said Matthew Driscoll, VP product management, Telestream. “As our customers move new technologies into mainstream deployments, we are adapting the tools they require to be successful.”
Key enhancements to the Prism platform include complete support for ST 2110-22 using JPEG XS compression. With up to four simultaneous ST 2110-22 streams, the JPEG XS compression allows an approximate bit rate reduction of 10X, significantly reducing the cost of network infrastructure by eliminating the need for manual configurations and simplifying workflows. Prism now supports a test-signal out in the same format to provide valuable comparisons to a known good signal.
In addition, integrated 3D LUT allows camera operators to shade HDR cameras by monitoring down-mapped SDR signals and compare HDR/SDR signals side-by-side, eliminating the need for conversion boxes. This offers a more cost-effective approach, streamlined workflow, and increased reliability in live productions.
An enhanced Telestream CIE chart includes the ability to narrow the range of the Luma to focus on specific regions of interest. In addition to the false colour mode for showing BT.709 and P3, regions are now ‘banded’ to indicate how far out of the gamut they are to help colourists more easily map into these colour spaces for increased flexibility.
Meanwhile, more resiliency configurations and troubleshooting tools have bee added to the SPG9000’s feature set. Highlights for the latest release include PTP capture and secondary reference. For debugging difficult PTP configuration issues, users can now capture network traffic (both Rx and Tx) on the media interfaces to download and open in Wireshark on a PC. This reduces the time it takes to capture the network traffic on another device, filter out the PTP messages, and then open in Wireshark.
Secondary reference adds a precision secondary reference clock (e.g., Rubidium) to guard against loss of Satellite for PTP grandmaster applications and provide an additional failover option for added flexibility.
Argus is also being enhanced with expedited troubleshooting thanks to new Monitoring Groups that quickly diagnose and suggest solutions, and live video, audio, and caption monitoring for faulty signals.
