HANOVER, GERMANY — Rohde & Schwarz DVS (www.dvs.de) is presenting the latest addition to its video board family — R&S Prios — for the playout of high-resolution sequences with high frame rates (HFR). The maximum resolution it can handle is a full 4K (4096 x 2160), with lower resolutions such as UHD (3840 x 2160), 2K, and HD also supported.
R&S Prios delivers high picture quality as it retains full RGB 10-bit color depth even for 4K at 120fps. For 4K at 60fps it can also output RGB 4:4:4 with 12 bits per color component, so even finer color graduations can be displayed. R&S Prios was developed specifically for applications which take into consideration the need to raise the frame rate, and not only the resolution and pixel count, for sequences in order to increase accutance. In terms of connectivity, R&S Prios has four DisplayPort 1.1a outputs.
Its genlock input allows multiple R&S Prios boards to be synchronized together in pixel-perfect harmony, making extensive multi-screen applications easy. The supported formats require very high data rates of over 4GB/s. To transfer these to the video card, R&S Prios has a second generation PCIe x16 interface.
Rohde & Schwarz DVS will also offer various upgrades for R&S Prios coming soon. The pipeline includes SDI inputs and outputs for 4K, four independent HD channels, as well as stereoscopic 3D in 4K resolution.