Video Quality Announces Automated Real-Time A/V Quality Monitoring

Quantitatively Measures A/V Impairments Seen and Heard by Your Customers

Campbell, California– April 13, 2009 – Video Clarity, Inc. will unveil their new real-time monitoring system at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Booth SU11321, April 20-23, 2009. Broadcasters and Manufacturers use the Real-Time Monitoring (RTM) system to continuously examine their signals and monitor their re-broadcasters.

RTM accepts 2 live inputs for a full reference check

• Automatically aligns the audio and video separately
• Reporting transmission delays and potential lip-sync issues
• Checks that the “reference” has live input
• Transmission path checking is not necessary if no input exists
• Compares the “processed” to the “reference” and generates a Quantitative Pass/Fail
• Many pass/fail criteria exist (e.g. generate a failure if 4 frames are below the threshold out of 10, realign on failure)
• Generate a continuous log of the A/V quality score
• Save the failed sequences for further analysis and archival

RTM saves valuable man-hours by vigilantly comparing streams and reporting frozen frames, breakups, loss of audio & video, and A/V synchronization. It measures the digital uncompressed signals after the receiving gear (normally a Set-top Box and a Satellite IRD) has performed error correction/concealment. It does a bit-for-bit comparison of the audio, video, and VANC. All discrepancies - transmission, encoding, or decoding – are logged.

 “Video Clarity is committed to making automated, real-time A/V quality monitoring a reality,” said Blake Homan, President of Video Clarity. “RTM saves valuable man-hours by monitoring the quality looking for anomalies in the audio, video, and VANC, and it never gets tired or takes a day off.”

RTM is available direct from Video Clarity or one of our partners. For more information, please visit our RTM product page.

About Video Clarity

Video Clarity, Inc. is a leading provider of subjective and objective video quality analysis systems, which provide all the tools necessary for R&D laboratories, broadcasters, and transmission engineers to make deterministic measurements of video quality. Propelled by sophisticated technology and market expertise, Video Clarity's ClearView system is at the core of commercial and educational researchers around the world. Video Clarity, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA with distribution world-wide. For additional information, please visit the company's Web site at www.videoclarity.com.