Front panel setup, Front panel menus, Menu parameters – Contemporary Research QMOD-SDI Manual User Manual

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QMOD-SDI

Front Panel Setup

There are a number of parameters that can be set by front-panel Setup commands. In normal operation the
Up/Down arrows select channels, and the Left/Right arrows adjust volume.

Pressing Setup enters the setup menus, shows last menu accessed

Pressing Up and Down arrow keys steps through the QMOD-SDI options

Pressing Left and Right keys steps through options for each front-panel menu

Press Select to save desired option

Pressing Setup ends menu item editing or exits the front-panel setup mode

Front Panel Menus

Menu

Parameters

Basic Settings

In most cases, the menus below will work for most displays at sites.

Video Input

This selects the appropriate input:

- SDI (autosenses 1080i, 720p, 480i)
- YPbPr (1080i, 720p, 480p, 480i)

- Video (automatically uses 480i)
- S-Video (automatically uses 480i)

HD Format

Component SDI auto-senses; Video and S-Video inputs are automatically set to

480i. Selection is locked unless there is no input.

- 1080i

- 480p

- 720p - 480i

Channel

XXX
Left/Right steps through channel numbers (use Left to access high channels)

Cable Format

Standard cable frequencies (default)
HRC – same as Standard, channels 5 and 6 slightly different

IRC – All channel frequencies are different than the standard cable setting

RF Level dB

Sets the output level of the RF output, in dBmV

- 29 (default)

-17

- 25

-13

- 21

- 9

Audio Input

Sets audio input for currently selected input (SDI, Component, and Video have separate
audio-follow memory)

SDI G1 – Embedded audio (normal stereo)
SDI G2 – Embedded audio

SDI G3 – Embedded audio
SDI G4 – Embedded audio

Digi (Digital) Optical
Digi Coax

Analog (default)

No Vid Color

Displays a color background with there is no video input, or the resolution doesn’t match the

QMOD settings.
- Orange

- Purple (default)
- Green

QAM Type

Today, most displays are set to tune 256 QAM. If a site has some very old displays, they
might only be able to tune in channels set to 64 QAM. Continuous Wave is often used to test

the channel with a meter.
- 64

- 256 (default)
- CW (Continuous Wave)

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