The fully-featured ARC102 is ideal for cost-sensitive digital aspect ratio conversion.

Designed to change the aspect ratio of a video signal, the ARC102 has six presets for standard conversions between 4:3 and 16:9.

Three of the presets allow 16:9 sources to be shown on a 4:3 monitor with the geometry preserved, while the other three allow similar easy conversion of 4:3 to 16:9.

These presets give the choice of showing the whole picture with wide black edging, less picture with narrow black edging or even less picture with no black edging.

The ARC102 offers an additional eight opportunities for user defined presets. It gives the flexibility to continuously compress and expand a picture from 50% to 200% normal size.

Horizontal and vertical offsets of the picture allow the easy addition of subtitles. Unlimited vertical and up to 255 horizontal luminance pixels can be cropped by either side of the output image - ideal for cleaning up the edges of the picture and removing unwanted material.

EDH is added to the output video data.

Unlike many other aspect ratio converters on the market, the ARC102 will pass embedded audio, preserving lip sync or audio-video timing without the need for additional equipment.

The ARC102 is a 100mm x 266mm module which fits in the standard frames (4U, 2U, 1U and desk top box) and can be easily integrated with the full range of interface, keying and picture storage products. Two SDI outputs are available using the RM01 frame rear module.

It offers flexible control options, including board edge, active frame front panel, remote control panel, SNMP, or from any PC on a network using the Statesman PC Control System, and additionally provides GPI selection of both factory and user presets.

The six factory presets are shown below.