Meridian Card Supports HDMI

5-Jan-04

Meridian Audio LimitedÆ, the Cambridge, UK based manufacturer of consumer digital audio systems, introduces a new card, the VE12, for their Model 800 DVD player. The card plugs into the card frame in the Model 800 DVD player and adds HDMI digital audio/video interfacing, as well as progressive video with FaroudjaÆ DCDiô de-interlacing. The VE12 supports HDMI, which carries standard, enhanced, or high-definition digital video and digital audio down the same digital cable without compression. The VE12 is HDMI Phase 1 compliant, and provides a wide selection of high-definition video formats, including 480i, 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. Also supported are two channels of PCM digital audio or bitstream formats that correspond to all the audio formats available for DVD-Video, including Dolby Digital and DTS.The video processing available on the card allows scaling and aspect ratio adjustment, including automatic sensing of disc flags. The digital image is pixel-mapped to the display and includes native-rate scaling (in which a dialogue occurs between the card and the display, thus enabling the card to deliver a signal that is specific to the display system in use for digital video performance without artifacts). Content is protected by means of the HDCP system developed for DVI by the IntelÆ Corporation.The VE12 card also offers broadcast-quality progressive component analog video outputs on three BNC connectors, with up to 480p maximum resolution. The outputs incorporate Faroudja DCDi technology, which provides per pixel motion-adaptive de-interlacing to allow highest quality, artifact-free, component video performance without the need for an external line-doubler. The card can be installed in the field in any existing Model 800 DVD player and will be available in March 2004. The card has an MSRP of $1,295. For more information, please visit www.meridian-audio.com.

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