Handheld test instrument for HDMI enables quick on-site testing and troubleshooting

The Teledyne LeCroy 780 handheld test instrument for HDMI is a battery-powered, portable video and audio generator and HDMI analyser that enables you to conduct quick, on-site verification testing and troubleshooting of your HDMI system and analogue video displays. It is available now from RS Components. The instrument is equipped with both a reference HDMI source and a reference HDMI sink interface allowing you to test audio, video and HDMI protocols—HDCP, EDID, CEC and info-frames—of any type of HDMI device: sources, repeaters and sinks. The device supports HDMI testing at pixel rates up to 165MHz and TMDS rates up to 225MHz for deep colour on the output and pixel rates up to 150MHz on the HDMI input. Installer tests enable you to quickly diagnose HDMI interoperability problems through an automated and simplified interface. Run tests upstream toward the source, downstream toward the sink or test both upstream and downstream simultaneously with the ‘Link’ test. The utility also enables you to test on both sides of a repeater. Report file creation enables residential installers, pro-AV integrators and test engineers in research and development to produce a record of the tests they perform. Reports can be run on HDCP, format analyser, audio analyser, cable tests, auxiliary channel analyser tests for any interface type. The reports can be provided to customers, colleagues or to the contracting agent to verify and demonstrate project completion. The reports can be run on a single test or aggregated for a series of tests. The reports can be transferred by SD card or the USB interface and viewed in a standard browser or any text editor.