 And we're here at the CES 2020. Hi. Hi, this is welcome to CES 2020. Welcome to the HDMI form booth. I'm Terry Harada from Astrodesign here to showcase a little demo of a HDMI 2.1 FRL switch demo. What's the FRL? FRL is fixed rate link. It's a new feature of HDMI 2.1 that's introduced in HDMI 2.1. It's one of the differences that separate HDMI 2.1 from the previous versions of HDMI, such as HDMI 2.0 and HDMI 1.0. What does it do? We're able to now accommodate a lot higher bandwidth with FRL, which allows us to do 8K video through a single cable, which is absolutely amazing. So it has to do with that 48 gigabits? Yes, 48 gigabits per second using FRL over the HDMI 2.1 link. So what's the demo here? So the demonstration that we have here is we have a customized Tamazon workstation designed by Astrodesign. This is actually outputting four HDMI outputs in the HDMI 2.0 form. It's coming into an Astrodesign converter unit that we call SD7075. What this converter unit does is it takes those four HDMI 2.0 signals and merges it into one HDMI 2.1 output. So now we're now outputting a single HDMI output and we're sending 8K over a single HDMI cable link. And what are we looking at here? Sure, over here this is a gorgeous device made by Panasonic. Panasonic made this HDMI 2.1 hub. Essentially it's taking a be able to switch between two HDMI 2.1 sources. We have Panasonic signal generator generating a signal over HDMI 2.0 times 4, essentially doing the same conversion that my Astrodesign box is doing next. What's it doing here? So we're able to switch the inputs here between the Panasonic input and the Astrodesign input just by hitting a switch. So it's a switch? A switch. So maybe can you explain a bit how it's how is this chip made? How is this chip made? So it's AC? Is it a specific very powerful or? This is custom chip. Custom chip? That will go in a TV box or in a TV or? Basically this is introducing a AB amplifier or a AB receiver for multiple input, switch to output to TV. And all the bandwidth goes through? Yes, every bandwidth and support. And what does this one do? This is a signal generator for a full 8K signal, similar to that. 4K signal? 4 HDMI 2.0 output. So similar to what my workstation is doing. And what is Astrodesign doing with this kind of box? So this is a tech called Temezon. It's our brand new customized workstation. It has a customized mother board on board. It's designed specifically to do live 8K video editing. So we have a very powerful system to do live 8K video editing right out the get-go. Astrodesign is known for their prowess in the 8K world as we launched the very first 8K camera back in 2013. Video editing? Video editing. Live 8K video editing. So what do you accelerate to make this possible? It's like video accelerators in there? We customize the mother board to overcome the PCI bus exchange and with problem that typically comes into effect in these workstations. Because every other workstation would be like boggled up. Exactly. So we had to customize that mother board and with our prowess with 8K and this high digital video signal processing we were able to design such a mother board to handle the process. You can edit any codec in 8K? That's still to be determined with what 8K codecs are going to be out in the wild. Right now we can do HQX from Grass Valley very very easily. Which one is the HQX? It's Grass Valley codec. Is that a high bit rate? Yes it's a very high bit rate codec. Very high bit rate. It's like a raw kind of thing. It's similar to a raw codec but there is some compression that happens on it. It's visually lossless is what we call it. And which video editing application is supporting this? Anything that you want to use. I know that we've used DaVinci Resolve from Blackmagic. You can hook up Resolve, which we call Workstation Booth, Control Center to it. Adobe Premiere anything that you're using today can be operated on this workstation. So it's not so difficult for you to hook into their plugins and stuff? Not at all. Yeah. But this is a very specialized kind of machine for the industry to use or is it for content creators to use? Right now we're trying to still search for that base so we think content creators can use it. We also have been using it for AI and deep learning applications as well as we can stack essentially four GPUs into this one body connected to the motherboard. So we're able to do a lot with this workstation. Is it something like NVIDIA P100 kind of GPUs or you don't say? We can use NVIDIA GPUs on this motherboard. And then is this very expensive? Yes it is. But people who edit AK movies. We think that if you need to do live AK videoing today you absolutely need something like this. There's no other solution out in the world so this is what we consider an only one solution at the time. It's pretty much the fastest video editing rig in the world. As far as we know yes. And of AK120? Yes we can handle AK120. Smooth. Real time. Working on it. I'm not going to say yes. Does that mean Tokyo 2020 is going to be using a bunch of these? Well we will be using a lot of Tamazon stations within the NHK workflow within itself. So expect to see AK coming from the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. A lot of that signal will be processed through Astrodesign and also through Panasonic as well. You have already a lot of experience within NHK? Oh yes we are. We've been developing their cameras since 2013 for AK cameras. Astrodesign. So we're a long time in the AK world in this high bandwidth world. Astrodesign has always been at the forefront. For you AK is old. Oh yeah AK is an old technology for us so we're just happy everyone's catching up. You're looking forward to the 16k right? Well that's yet to be determined. And what is this box doing? So this is converting the HDMI 2.0 signal time support out to a single HDMI 2.1 point. What kind of chip does that? It's one of our partners that developed this chipset that allow us to do this conversion. Do you have mostly customers in Japan or you have actually everywhere? We're worldwide. We do have global distribution available. However we are more popular in the Asia and Japan market. Because for some reason in Japan that's where all the cameras are. Yes well that's where the government mandate happened for AK. So with the government push for AK toward for the Olympics this is kind of where it puts us. Is it going to be ready? Oh it's it's it's ready it's going to be amazing. For the Olympics no power? Oh you guys are going to be amazed at what happens at the Olympics with the viewing station that's going to be set up all over Tokyo. It's going to be fantastic. So we need to get our AK projectors and displays. We would love you to pick up those AK projectors and displays absolutely. I think it's coming sooner than we realize so yes.