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With the huge success of Crystalio in past years, Pixel Magic Systems Ltd. is now proud to introduce an
absolute must for any videophile passionate about their hi-performance home entertainment system:
Crystalio II
.
It has been designed to deliver the most natural and artifact-free images with smooth motion, true colors and
stunning detail that you have ever experienced.
1.1 WHY DO I NEED CRYSTALIO II?
Crystalio II
is the perfect companion for any commercial or home theater application. This is made possible by
the use of Gennum’s Visual Excellence Processing (VXP) image processor which offers revolutionary
improvements over today’s existing solutions by integrating next-generation broadcast-quality algorithms.
You may wonder why you need a separate video processor, if you can simply purchase a projector or a DVD
player with some scaling capability built in. The reasons are performance and flexibility.
Crystalio II
allows you
to have sophisticated control over every aspect of video processing, so that you can control the performance
of the entire video system to a far greater extent.
Crystalio II
also gives you the flexibility to enjoy this feature
from basic component video sources right through to pure digital HDMI video.
High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), on the other hand, is the first and only digital interface to combine
uncompressed high definition video, multi-channel audio and intelligent format and command data in a single
digital interface. You can dramatically simplify home theater system installation by using a single cable for audio
and video and eliminate the cable quagmire typically associated with home theater system components. Most
importantly, HDMI offers significant advantages over analog A/V connections, including the ability to transmit
uncompressed digital video and audio content.
In a nutshell,
Crystalio II
is able to maximize the performance of any video source, from traditional SVHS
recordings and video games consoles to DVD players, high definition TV broadcast and future high definition
Blu-Ray or HD-DVD players.
The following will describe in-depth the evolution of video processing that has led to the innovation of
Crystalio II
.
Alternatively you may skip these paragraphs and go directly to
Section
1.3
for an overview of the most cutting-
edge technologies that
Crystalio II
has embodied.
1.2 VIDEO PROCESSING HISTORY
So many home theater viewers find that their new projector, plasma or LCD does not provide the expected
increase in image quality and may even appear noisier or less clear than their old standard definition system
or CRT set.
Few people realize when they purchase their first high definition TV set that the majority of TV programming is
still delivered in standard definition. Even true high definition TV transmissions, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources
are often still interlaced or have significant noise, or may contain artifacts due to the original recording medium.
To make matters worse, in order to fill a high resolution high definition TV screen the standard definition image
has to be enlarged, unfortunately enlarging all the flaws in the original image too. The video processing built
into most home theater displays and progressive-scan DVD players has limited processing ability, runs basic
algorithms and is unable to properly deal with these flaws.
1. ABOUT CRYSTALIO II
