User guide

ES9600 User Guide Chapter 1: Introduction/Quick Reference Guide
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Chapter 1: Introduction
The Electrosonic ES9600 JPEG2000 Player is a high quality video and audio playback appliance capable of
providing one or two video playback channels at 2K and HD output resolutions. It is designed to meet the most
demanding 3D and stereoscopic applications as well as more traditional single display requirements.
The ES9600 also features a built-in full-color video display (LCD-TFT), while being the interface for local control
of the ES9600, also functions as a ‘confidence monitor’ for video output during playback. The user has the ability
to control the ‘alpha-blend’ between the user interface display and the video playback display resulting in a
moving video ‘background’ to the user display interface. The amount of ‘blend’ can be varied to the user’s
preference or left alone to be switched between user interface and video monitoring as needed.
Complementing its video capabilities the ES9600 provides 16 channels of AES/EBU uncompressed digital audio.
The ES9600 supports playback of visually lossless MXF wrapped Digital Cinema Package (DCP) files. The DCP
includes video, audio and other associated content encoded to the DCI specification.
Features that enable multi-unit synchronization and integration into the most demanding applications are available
through the ESGEN Video Genlock, and Timecode (LTC) interfaces.
Of course, the ES9600 manipulates all program material in the digital environment to ensure that image quality is
maintained irrespective of the number of times a file is displayed or copied. When integrated into a computer
network, the ES9600 is accessible from remote locations making content transfer and remote control very easy.
Main Features
 2U 19” Rack mounted enclosure ensures maximum reliability, long product life and ease of installation
 Intuitive front panel user interface with TFT LCD display and rotary encoder for easy local control of the
player
 Dual redundant power supply units (PSUs)
 Web interface for remote control of the ES9600
 Not a PC thus no external keyboard/mouse/display requirements
 Support for a wide range of remote control options using Ethernet TCP/IP or Serial RS232 interfaces
 Networking capabilities provide the means to remotely upload new audio/video files to the Player
 Dual GigaBit Ethernet links provide simultaneous control and data transfer connections