Ensemble Designs to Debut New Scan Converter at AUVSI 2012



Grass Valley, California, 1 August 2012 - (Virtual Press Office) – Ensemble Designs will debut the BrightEye Mitto Scan Converter, model BEM-2F, at the the AUVSI Show in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay, August 6-9, 2012 on booth # 434. The BrightEye Mitto converts computer based material to SD, HD or 3 Gb/s serial digital SDI electrical and fiber optic outputs.

The BrightEye Mitto can be optimized for various types of computer based material such as maps, email and videos. All Ensemble products are COTS and can be configured to meet specific system requirements. Ensemble staff regularly collaborate with customers to configure and integrate BrightEye equipment for specific applications.

“The introduction of our new fiber optic scan converters is a direct result of customer requests,” said Mondae Hott, Director of Sales at Ensemble Designs. “We're responding to what people asked us for. Now they can choose the perfect scan converter for their video facility, whether it's a for an underwater or airborne installation.”

The new Mitto scan converters are part of Ensemble's BrightEye family of signal processing equipment that take video from a computer, such as Skype, YouTube, maps and medical video, and convert the material to SD, HD or 3 Gb/s serial digital video. All Mitto units accept VGA, DVI and HDMI input signals from PC and Mac computers.

Ensemble offers six different BrightEye Mitto units, each with varying inputs, outputs and capabilities, allowing the end- user to choose exactly the Mitto with the best set of functionality for their particular video application. All of BrightEye Mitto units convert YouTube™, Skype™ video, weather radar, viewer emails and maps to video. Just a small part of the screen, such as a Skype window, can be selected with a mouse and converted to full screen HD. Ensemble's proprietary upconversion and filtering processing provides broadcast quality video for use in high end applications.

The BrightEye product line includes frame synchronizers, audio embedders, reference generators, scan converters and video converters. Each BrightEye unit is 5.5 inches wide, rugged and reliable, for use in extremely demanding video applications.


About Ensemble Designs: Based in Grass Valley, California and started in 1989, Ensemble Designs is a designer and manufacturer of high-end, COTS signal processing and infrastructure products for the professional video and broadcast industry, serving government and commercial facilities. All Ensemble Designs equipment is designed and manufactured in California. Customers include Geneva Aviation, NASA, CBS News, General Atomics and the Olympic Broadcast Organisation.

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