Eyeheight announces three additions to its wide range of modular broadcast and post-production equipment — the LE-2nM, LE-2nS and LE-2nU, fully-featured single-card legalizers housed in a rackmountable or free-standing half-rack-width 1 U chassis with external mains power supply.

An integrated multi-definition RGB and composite legalizer, the LE-2nM is designed for use in post-production and quality-assurance. The LE-2nM conforms to all commonly-used guidelines for legalization of common TV and film formats. legalization, including luminance ring suppression, can be performed in composite, YUV or RGB colour space or in RGB-plus-composite domain. Independent outputs of the legalized signal and legal/indicate monitor-display are provided. A unique severity display mode is included on monitoring output. The LE-2nM is supplied as a fully operational system for control via a Java software panel which can run on any Java-equipped PC or Mac platform. User controls include three safe-area cursor generators with configurable cursor colour, transparency and cursor type plus specialist functions for text height and aspect ratio measurement. Six user memories are incorporated in additioin addition to preset EBU-R 2003 standard SDI legalization and 7.5 IRE or 0 IRE Pedestal. The user memories can be be accessed via two GPI inputs. A Microsoft .NET platform application is included for configuration of custom cursors. Model LE-2nU has essentially the same features plus the capability of 1080p dual link operation. Model LE-2nS is the SD version.