Flexibility for Alternative Content
ALTERNATIVE CONTENT DMS SCALERS More flexibility for Alternative Content Kinoton’s Markus Näther explains the technology behind the company’s DMS Scalers -Cinema projectors using Series analog component, composite, S-Video and why high-quality cinema scalers employ very II 2K DLP Cinema® technology VGA inputs for connecting PCs or laptops, DVD complex mathematical algorithms to achieve support not only true 2K content, players, satellite receivers, digital encoders, smooth transitions. Pixels to be added are but also different video formats. cable receivers and many other sources, up to interpolated from the interim values of their If it comes to alternative content, HDMI inputs for Blu-Ray players etc. Premium neighbouring pixels, and if pixels have to be D scalers even offer SDI and HD-SDI inputs for though, they quickly reach their limits – the deleted, the same principle is used to smooth range of different picture resolutions, video professional sources. the transitions between the residual pixels. rendering techniques, frame rates and refresh Perfect Image Adjustment How well a scaler accomplishes this demanding rates used on the video market is simply too The different video sources – like classic TV, task basically depends on its processing power. large. Professional media scalers can convert HDTV, DVD or Blu-Ray, just to name the most Kinoton’s premium scaler model DMS DC2 incompatible video signals into the ideal input common ones – work with different image PRO realises image format changes without signal for D-Cinema projectors, and in addition resolutions. The ideal screen resolution for any loss of sharpness, the base model HD DMS enhance the projector’s capabilities of connect- the projection of alternative content with 2K still provides an acceptable image quality for ing alternate content sources.
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