What's New?

The design of broadcast and A/V video products continue to be the majority of our work, and 2008 was no exception. We designed some 20 products that were introduced into various markets in 2008.

One of these designs won both design and innovation awards at NAB2008.

We designed a series of HD-SDI LCD monitors, HD digital to analog converters and HD analog to digital converters, video frame averager for military applications, and a low cost HDTV pattern generator with real voice audio channel IDs.

For the A/V marketplace, we also designed a pair of CAT5 Receivers and Transmitters that link stereo audio, RGBHV video, and RS-232 or IR between distant points using a single inexpensive CAT5, CAT5e, or CAT6/7/8 UTP cable.

What's Old?

We call ourselves the "Pixel Tamers", and to challenge this title we were asked to design a replacement LCD for the early daylight readable LCD's used in Boeing 757 cockpits. In 2009 we will develop LCD replacements for CRT displays.

As the migration continues toward HDTV we've developed to bridge the transition from SD to HD. These products may increase the usable life of legacy displays, or provide test signals to confirm performance of new HD-SDI signal paths.

Many of Comtech's latest product designs focus creating HDTV video products. These range from test generators to a variety of LCD displays. We are also able to take standard definition (SD) or high definition (HD) serial digital feeds and scale, de-interlace, and frame-rate convert any input format and target any LCD/DLP/Plasma display resolution.

Comtech continues to design converter products to help our clients offer the broadcaster state-of-the-art analog decoding - and format converters.

Also, important in our design portfolio are those products targeted for use in the A/V market. The A/V market continues to grow and we intend to be a part of that growth with innovative and reliable products. We understand the need to keep cost down and quality up!