PQA600C Picture Quality Analyzer

Picture Quality Analyzers

Full Reference Picture Quality Analyzers to Improve Your Video Quality

The true measure of any television system is viewer satisfaction. Based on the concepts of the human vision model, Tektronix Picture Quality Analyzers provide a suite of repeatable, objective quality measurements that closely correspond with subjective human visual assessment.

Picture Quality Analyzers are used for the design, evaluation and test of the encoding, transcoding and decoding processes. HDMI testing is critical in today’s consumer electronics like Set Top Boxes and Blu-Ray players which output video through an HDMI interface with HDCP encryption. The PQA600B and the PQA600C uniquely decode the HDCP protocol, and enables video quality performance comparisons on a range of consumer electronics.

They can be also used to evaluate the video equipment that support 4K/UHDTV1 formats in conjunction with the MTS4EAV7 analyzer for decoding a HEVC Main 10 profile stream.

PQA600C

Features
PSNR, PQR/DMOS measurements supporting SD/HD/4K resolution at multiple frame rates, Embedded Reference Decoder, Script execution (Batch Processing), Multiple Simultaneous Application Executions, SDI/IP/HDMI with HDCP interface

Features	Benefits
Objective perceptual measurements based on an accurate human vision system model	Ensure measurement results match viewers’ subjective ratings Achieve and verify differentiated picture quality with cost-effective and time-efficient repeatable assessments Reduce the time and effort needed to detect, diagnose and correct picture quality problems Optimize video processing algorithm performance Clearly state the quality acceptance criteria for video products, systems or content Easily share the conformance measurements and results throughout the organization or with suppliers
Attention modeling software and attention-weighted picture quality measurements	Unique tools for optimizing video processing algorithms and video distribution systems
Measurements for artifact detection, artifact-weighted picture quality and classic PSNR	Help isolate and correct quality problems and evaluate quality tradeoffs
Integrated graph display	Easy interpretation of the graph along with reference, test and differential map
Segment-based auto temporal alignment	Reduces manual operations in the measurement processes
Measure a region of interest	Helps analyze the character of quality degradation
New pre-configured measurements	Quick start with pre-configured measurements for standard applications
Embedded decoder	Eliminates additional processes and external tools for measuring compressed files. Use the reference decoder (without post processing) to improve the picture quality while evaluating the performance of encoder
Advanced Measurements package (OPT ADV)	Eases the integration of Picture Quality Analysis into existing testing environments
IP Generation /Capture (OPT IP)	Evaluate the performance of a video stream across an IP device, or across the transcoding process (SDI to IP)
HDMI with HDCP interface	Evaluate the video quality of Set Top Boxes and Blu-Ray players
SD/HD/3G-SDI interface	Generate and capture the video content with the highest broadcast quality format (1080p50/59)
Hardware format conversion	Effectively evaluates the format conversion (e.g. SD to HD, and HD to SD)
Additional compression format support in embedded decoder	Eliminates the need for external decoding tools for emerging compression formats
Side-by-Side / Wipe / Swap display with SDI/HDMI generation	Enables the subjective evaluation of content