Leader - ZEN-W Series
Category QC QA Monitoring
The Leader ZEN-W Series, comprised of the LV5600W waveform monitor and LV7600W rasterizer, is designed to satisfy the most demanding broadcast operations and production test and measurement environments. Now with the growth of IP infrastructures and new remote production working practices, a series of brand-new features ensures the ZEN-W Series provides all the support needed to monitor UHD/HD/SD SDI as well as video-over-IP signals seamlessly in a true-hybrid operating environment.
Making your transition smooth, irrespective of where broadcasters are on their infrastructure transition has always been at the forefront of our product development. For every broadcaster considering migration from SDI video to IP or even the Cloud, there are as many that are making the transition from SD-SDI to HD-SDI. Transitioning infrastructure also brings with it the challenge of changes to operational practices. The ZEN-W Series helps broadcasters analyze their video, audio and ancillary data with the traditional Picture, Waveform and Vectorscope display, and IP Traffic that engineers and production staff have known and understood for decades.
Infrastructure transitions result in hybrid working practices, whether that be SD-SDI and HD-SDI, HD and UHDTV, SDR and HDR, SDI and IP or On-premises and Cloud. Broadcasters need test and measurement instruments they can trust and display all signal types simultaneously for quick and easy comparison when fault finding.
As migration to IT centric models becomes more prevalent, the product life of broadcaster equipment is shrinking, making return on capital investment even more challenging. The Leader LV5600W and LV7600W are still the broadcast industries only ‘True Hybrid’ IP and SDI analysis products, being able to display both IP and SD sources with traditional test and measurement analysis tools, like Picture, Waveform, Vectorscope and ancillary data.
The new ZEN-W Series supports all the analysis tools of the original ZEN Series with the added feature of a WebRTC interface, allowing broadcasters to remotely locate the waveform monitor or rasterizer in a ‘dark’ data center environment and allow engineering and production staff to view it from their desktop.
