SEOUL, S. KOREA—TVLogic—a manufacturer of LCD and OLED high-definition monitors, has acquired Nexto DI, a South Korea-based provider of portable field backup storage units for digital cameras.

According to Jin Lee, spokesman for TVLogic USA, in Burbank, Calif., “When the acquisition was completed in January 2018, Nexto DI moved its operation to TVLogic’s Seoul, Korea headquarters, bringing the total number of employees there to over 100. Charlie Shin, vice president of TVLogic’s Broadcast Monitor Division, is  now the CEO of Nexto DI.

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TVLogic designs and manufactures LCD and OLED HD displays—from 5.5" to 55"—designed specifically for broadcast, production, postproduction, digital signage and multiviewer applications. TVLogic’s advanced display portfolio includes: the XVM Series of precision LCD monitors, the LEM Series of OLED monitors, the LUM Series 4K/UHD monitors, and SRM Series Sunlight Readable monitors.

Nexto DI manufactures high-performance backup systems, which provide data security, even in the most challenging environments, by integrating the company’s patented “Xcopy” technology, as well as M‑copy, which copies to multiple drives simultaneously.

“This is a very exciting development for both companies, as well as for our partners and our clients,” said Denny An, TVLogic’s Director of Worldwide Sales. “The synergy created from TVLogic’s reputation as a pioneer in advanced display technology, combined with Nexto DI’s experience in the portable storage area, will result in greater efficiencies all around, and a position of greater strength in the broadcast equipment market.”

BURBANK, CALIF.—Focusing on what post production quality control can and should be, My Eye Media provides accurate and thorough evaluations of content. We are constantly refining our workflows to ensure we are using the most comprehensive set of industry-leading equipment.

TVLogic monitors have long been a key piece in our workflows. Their professional grade line-up of monitors with a robust toolkit of features is a large part of completing our QCs at the highest level.

My Eye Media has recently gone 4K with the installation of TVLogic’s LUM-550M monitors.

OPTIONS
We have incorporated multiple TVLogic models into our infrastructure to meet specific needs within our QC bays and machine room. We may use one, or a combination of these to evaluate content of different formats and complete multiple passes of the same content in different viewing conditions. The most important thing our TVLogic monitors provides us with is options, which need to be as varied as the content we are evaluating.

My Eye Media has outfitted our machine room and several of our HD bays with LVM series multiformat monitors. As most of our mastering content is primarily RGB 4:4:4, a valuable feature of this series is the 3G SDI/Dual-link support, which can minimize any signal quality loss when converting to HDMI.

This series also offers a high degree of control for adjusting picture. In QC, we’re responsible for detecting what may seem like miniscule issues, like single-pixel artifacts, enhanced noise in black levels or color mistimes. These issues might otherwise be undetectable without the ability to fine tune monitor brightness, chroma and contrast. We also rely on the internal graticule generator for checking title and action safe as well as identifying framing errors. The built-in waveform and vectorscope provide a companion check to our external scopes for verifying and comparing video levels.

Finally, being able to decode 608 and 708 captions directly on the monitor lets us complete the stringent closed-caption quality control required by our broadcast clients.

GOING 4K
In addition to HD Rec 709 content, there is a push toward wider color gamut, brighter luminance and increased contrast ratios to produce clearer, crisper and more realistic images. My Eye Media tests the latest technologies, such as UHD and 4K, and recently, Dolby Vision and HDR-10.

We recently outfitted one of our 4K bays with the TVLogic LVM-550M that includes the same set of features for the LVM series, but adds UHD native resolution, 12G-SDI, full 10-bit driver support and DCI-P3 gamut. This allows for UHD HDR content evaluation at a professional level and fits nicely with our existing HDR toolset.

My Eye Media is committed to advances in post-production, specifically in quality control, and will continue to incorporate the best tools and equipment into our workflows. We value our partnership with TVLogic and look forward to its continued success.

Mel Waddell joined My Eye Media in 2007. She can be contacted atmwaddell@myeyemedia.com.

For more information, please visitwww.tvlogicusa.comor call 818-885-6442.

LAS VEGAS—TVLogic, a manufacturer of video displays, made a strong statement about the future of organic light-emitting diode displays: Count TVLogic in.

Wes Donahue, director of channel sales and marketing for TV Logic, explains a feature on the company’s VFM-055A OLED monitor.

The company unveiled two OLED displays ranging in size from 5.5 inches to 55 inches, both showing the high contrast and wide viewing angles associated with OLED devices. These are the VFM-055A camera-top 5.5-inch display with 1,920×1,080-pixel resolution and the LEM-550 55-inch monitor.

“This is our first large-format OLED monitor,” said Wes Donahue, director of channel sales and marketing for TVLogic, referring to the LEM-550. With 4K resolution, 750 nits peak white and 10-bit processing, the LEM-550 is targeted at users who need a large-screen display with the precision of OLED colors and contrast.

For broadcast and QC display, the company introduced the LVM-171S/171G 17-inch broadcast display. The LVM-171G version is 4K capable.

Inside a darkened space, Donahue discussed TVLogic’s new LUM-310R, a 31-inch reference monitor for the most demanding applications. Capable of 4K resolution and HDR display, the LUM-310R is aimed at film editing and grading specialists. The model will be available in 2018.

In addition to its latest displays, TVLogic also showed off new product lines, including two pan/tilt/zoom cameras and a 36×36 routing switcher.

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