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Specialists in electronic display performance evaluation and quality assurance.

Video Instruments LLC •1065 Lower Bellbrook Rd. • Xenia, Ohio 45385-7308 Phone/Fax: 937-376-4361• Email: sales@videoinstruments.com

Obsolete Product Replacement
A review of modern, currently available instruments which provide functionality equivalent to that of products now obsolete and no longer available.

Pattern Review
A tutorial text of professional reference images.

Pattern Pro
A collection of traditional and new reference images on disk for quality assurance and performance test of p.c. based displays - a test pattern generator on a CD!

Effective 05/15/2008

VIDEO STANDARDS

RS-170, RS-170A, RS-330A, RS-343A, NTSC, VESA, VGA

These standards are commonly referred to in specifying equipment for video systems. Unfortunately they are often misapplied and incorrectly referenced. The VIDEO STANDARDS technical note examines these and provides detail of what they are and what they are intended to provide. Click here for the VIDEO STANDARDS technical note

Consultation Video Instruments can provide expert consultation on a wide variety of video engineering topics with special emphasis on the issues of video performance analysis and quality assurance for cameras, processors, displays and recording/storage media. Direct inquiries to: sales@videoinstruments.com.

Video Instruments LLC is successor to Visual Information Institute, Inc., a leading U.S. manufacturer of video test instrumentation for over 40 years. Products include advanced technology generators as well as new test patterns and software solutions for performance analysis of digitally derived images.

The V.I. 600 Series programmable video pattern generators provide basic patterns for various military, medical and industrial applications at various scan rates and formats, including EIA Standards RS-170, RS-330A, RS-343A, VESA and others. The user can build custom scan formats on their personal computer and download/store them in the generator. Patterns include: Bars, Dots, Window, V Stripe, Gray Scale, Checkerboard, Resolution Multiburst, Flat Field and Color Bars.

Model 602
Small hand-held generator in a lightweight plastic case. Click here for the Model 602 data sheet.

Model 3602
Rack mount version of the Model 602 in a heavy duty metal cabinet provides fully integrated video performance test capability for a larger system. Click here for the Model 3602 data sheet.