Introduction

1. INTRODUCTION

The TDCT-Pro is the powerful time, date, character, and titler which has all the features of existing TDCT products (TDCT-T, mTDCT, TDCT-60, TDCT-Military, MTDCT, STDCT, mSTDCT, and mSVTDCT). Daylight Savings time is also supported along with a set of RS-232 commands allows the master unit to be programmed by other devices of Title and Time and Date set- tings. The following is the features of TDCT-Pro.

2.FEATURES

•Easy on screen programming

•Programmable Date & time.

•Programmable single line or dual line Time & Date display

•Programmable Time Format hh/mm/ss or hh/mm/ss/fr (hh/mm/ ss/fr will result in two line time and date display. The fr = frame rate 1/60 sec for NTSC and 1/50 for PAL)

•Programmable for Tenths of Second or Frame Rate Counter

•Programmable 12 hour or 24 hour time format

•Daylight Savings Time for USA/Canada/Australia/Tasmania

•Programmable Date mm/dd/yy or dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd

•Programmable title up to 20 characters and single line display

•Programmable 10 character size.s

•Gray scale and border selection from front panel and from pro- gramming menu.

•Programmable master and slave selection

•Set or change the title of the master or the slave TDCT via serial interfacing between the master TDCT and a communi- cation device (e.g Personal computer).

•Synchronizing the time and date between master and slave.

•Compatible with the AVE RS-232 to RS-485 Adapter for dis- tances of up to 3000’ for master slave connections.