HQV Vida Processor in AVENTAGE Audio/Video Receivers

IDT has announced that its HQV Vida processor has been selected for the new Yamaha AVENTAGE audio/video receivers. The Vida processor takes industry-leading Hollywood-quality video processing technology to a new level of performance, significantly improving the consumer viewing experience and helping Yamaha deliver an unparalleled home entertainment experience to its customers.

“IDT’s HQV Vida processor provides the highest quality video processing in the industry, which is exactly what we wanted for our AVENTAGE receivers,” said Eiji Takeuchi, Assistant Engineering Manager at Yamaha Corporation. “We carefully considered every electrical path, every component, and every material to maximize performance, which made choosing the best processor in the industry like IDT’s HQV Vida very critical.”

The Yamaha AVENTAGE audio/video receiver is a vividly inspired leap forward in audio/video component design. Bringing studio-quality sound and state-of-the-art video enhancement to home entertainment, the AVENTAGE has drawn unprecedented attention to design, engineering and manufacturing detail.

"Yamaha is one of the most trusted names in the audio and video industry, and we are pleased to feature HQV Vida in its latest breakthrough products," said Ji Park, vice president and general manager of IDT's Video and Display Division. "Yamaha believes that HQV is well-known as the premier standard in video processing today, and the Vida device takes HQV video processing to a new level of excellence."

The Vida processor enhances image detail and quality with four-field motion adaptive deinterlacing, multi-frame rate tracking, 12-bit color processing and resolution enhancement. Standard definition sources are converted to HD quality, making HD look more detailed. In addition, the device provides real-time cleanup of highly compressed video, reducing mosaic and mosquito noise from compression artifacts of lower quality sources.

The IDT VHD1900 integrates two new IDT HQV technologies – Auto HQV and HQV StreamClean – which automatically enhance incoming images and implement powerful source video cleanup to make the picture as sharp and clean as possible.

Auto HQV provides hands-free adjustments to optimize the image quality of content from different sources or of varying quality. It also analyzes video content to adaptively adjust image and noise processing parameters to optimize image quality and reduce artifacts. HQV StreamClean includes three noise reduction technologies—Adaptive Mosquito, Mosaic, and Temporal Noise—to selectively reduce these hard-to-remove image artifacts.

IDT HQV's latest products also feature 14-bit internal processing, 12-bit deep color processing output, and 3D color gamut conversion for xvYCC processing. These features provide accurate conversion of both regular and wide gamut content to the display's native color gamut.