Matrox Convert DVI lets you convert high-resolution DVI sources into HD or SD video for broadcast, display, and recording. It takes your DVI output and converts it to high-quality SDI and analog video simultaneously. You get a variety of high-end features at a low price. Matrox Convert DVI lets you output your entire computer screen or focus on details in a region of interest of any size within the larger resolution. Genlock with timing offset controls, an advanced downscaling algorithm, a flicker reduction filter, and one-to-one pixel mapping ensure optimal quality and flexibility.

Matrox Convert DVI is a multi-purpose device. It’s ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as video games, PowerPoint presentations, YouTube videos, Google Earth animations, and web browser sessions. It’s a user-friendly way to create software application training videos. It’s the perfect appliance to drive projectors and large displays at live events and in houses of worship. And it’s a very low-cost HD preview monitoring solution for video editors using applications such as Avid Media Composer.

In applications where the DVI signal is not coming from a computer, but from a camera or medical device for example, Matrox Convert DVI can operate independently of a PC to deliver SDI and analog video.

Key Features

• DVI input up to 1920 x 1200
• Digital outputs: HD/SD SDI
• Stereo audio input can be embedded into the SDI output signal
• Analog outputs: HD/SD analog component, S-Video, and composite
• Simultaneous analog and digital output
• SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level genlock with timing offset controls
• Realtime HD to SD hardware downscaling with proper color space and aspect ratio conversion
• Region of interest output support
• Anti-flicker filter
• Can operate as a stand-alone appliance

Inputs and Outputs

Input
Matrox Convert DVI accepts common DVI-D signal resolutions up to 1920x1200. A third-party HDMI to DVI adapter lets you use Matrox Convert DVI with compatible HDMI sources.

Output
Matrox Convert DVI provides a full complement of outputs including HD/SDSDI, HD/SD analog component, S-Video, and composite. Your choice of analog output and the SDI output are simultaneously live. Supported output standards: NTSC PAL HD 1280x720p at 50 and 59.94 fps HD 1920x1080i at 25 and 29.97 fps

Audio support
Matrox Convert DVI accepts stereo audio input. The audio input is routed to the audio output for monitoring and is embedded into all eight channels of the SDI signal.

Genlock

Matrox Convert DVI can be genlocked to a SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level genlock source. Horizontal and vertical timing offset controls can be used to align your video output relative to your external genlock source to compensate for cable delays within your facility.

High-quality hardware downscaling

Matrox Convert DVI will output full resolution 1080i HD video or you can choose to downscale to 720p or SD. Proper conversion of the HD color space to the SD color space and proper aspect ratio conversion to anamorphic, letterbox, and center cut are provided.

Region of interest

Matrox Convert DVI lets you output your entire computer screen or focus on details in a region of interest of any size within the larger resolution. The region of interest can be selected by entering screen coordinates or by simply clicking and dragging your mouse over the area you want to output. If your region of interest is larger than your selected output standard, Matrox Convert DVI will automatically downscale it to fit.

Flicker reduction

Matrox Convert DVI provides a anti-flicker filter to reduce artifacts that result from converting progressive images to interlaced video, resulting in a more stable output.

Stand-alone mode

Matrox Convert DVI is controlled and configured by a PC-based user interface via a USB connection. Once configured, the box can be programmed to behave as a stand-alone appliance so that the control PC can then be disconnected. This lets you use another DVI device as your input such as a camera, Mac computer, medical device, or even another PC. When Convert DVI is in standalone mode, the settings cannot be tampered with and configuration information is maintained when the unit is turned off.

Specifications

General
Works with DVI devices such as computers, cameras, and medical devices

Video standards
NTSC, PAL, NTSC-EIAJ, 1080i, 720p Regulatory compliance FCC Class A, CE Mark Class A, C-Tick Mark, VCCI RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC

Dimensions
134mm (L) × 161mm (W) × 45mm (H)

External AC/DC adapter
100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz Input: IEC320-C8 inlet Output: +5V DC, 3A max., 2.5mm barrel type Dimensions: 95mm (L) × 54mm (W) × 32mm (H)

Total power consumption
10 watts

Connections

DVI input and output
DVI-I (single-link) 29-pin female connector

Audio input
1/8" stereo minijack

Genlock reference input
SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level sync BNC connector (75 Ω), terminated Timing offset controls provided

SDTV SDI output
SD-SDI with 8 channels of embedded SDI audio 24-bit, 48 kHz BNC connector (75 Ω) Compliant with SMPTE 259M-C, SMPTE 272M

SDTV S-Video & composite video output
PAL, NTSC, NTSC-EIAJ Frequency response: +/- 0.25 dB max to 5 MHz 2T pulse response: 0.5% max Diff. Gain and Diff. Phase: < 2% BNC connectors (75 Ω) SDTV analog component video output Betacam, Betacam SP (NTSC & NTSC-EIAJ) SMPTE/EBU N10 (PAL) Frequency response Y: +/- 0.25 dB max to 5 MHz Frequency response Pb, Pr: +/-0.2 dB max to 2 MHz Component channel delay: +/- 3 ns Component S/N (Y, Pb, Pr): > 54 dB, unified weighted BNC connectors (75 Ω)

HDTV SDI output
HD-SDI with 8 channels of embedded SDI audio 24-bit, 48 kHz Compliant with SMPTE 292M, SMPTE 299M BNC connector (75 Ω)

HDTV analog component video output
Supported video formats: 1080i 50, 1080i 59.94, 720p 59.94 Compliant to EIA-770.3 Frequency response Y: +/- 0.3 dB max to 28 MHz Frequency response Pb, Pr: +/- 0.4 dB max to 14 MHz Component channel delay: +/- 0.5 ns Component S/N (Y, Pb, Pr): > 57 dB, unified weighted BNC connectors (75 Ω)

Accessories
MXO cable – DVI and system audio loop-through, 1 meter External AC-DC adapter Power cord Y/C video adapter