LDR-4 provides up to 30 hours of frame-accurate recording and playback of four simultaneous video streams

FOR-A Corporation of America introduced the LDR-4 multichannel digital disk recorder. The cost-effective LDR-4 provides for the high-quality recording of four input streams without missing a single frame. With a 120GB hard drive, there's enough capacity to record 30 hours of DV-quality material per channel, greatly simplifying the recording of multicamera live events.

The LDR-4 is perfect for multicamera live digital sports production and broadcast - both remote and in studio - where capturing and displaying the action reliably and immediately is critical, as well as high-quality studio production and postproduction applications. It also serves an invaluable replacement for VTRs.

Ensuring that no image will ever be missed, with the new LDR-4 DDR, every camera input of up to four channels can be continuously recorded using MPEG-2 long GOP compression (either at 30 frames or 60 fields per second) onto a single hard drive. It's also compact (3RU) in size and enables simultaneous record and playback, so that up to four channels can record a live event while any one of them can be played back simultaneously.

The LDR-4 offers a great degree of flexibility, as all video feeds can be viewed and monitored onsite or remotely with any standard PC computer. The number of input channels can be selected from one to four with the addition of one encoder board per channel. There's also a remote control feature via RS-422 (4:2:4) protocol and (optional) Ethernet 10/100baseT networking support.

The LDR-4 can be operated in NTSC or PAL standards, and it includes time-lapse recording, automatic detection of video loss, onscreen titling generation/display (up to eight characters per channel) and intelligent alarms features that alert users to pending problems. Once recorded, images can be randomly accessed across all the channels using simple time of day, alarm events or start/end points. I/O support includes analog composite inputs and analog composite-Y/C output.

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