 Hello, my name is Jawad Khan of Astrodesign. I'm the sales manager. What you have over here is our VG879 signal generator, followed by our VA1847 protocol analyzer. Now I would like to mention that all of our products are made in-house in Japan, from the software to the hardware. On top of that, we are also certified as far as HDMI compliance testing is concerned, and that's also continuously being updated. The primary function of this is to generate signals. Not only can it generate signals using the HDMI interface, but it can also generate signals using a variety of other interfaces. You can test up to 8K outputting, 60 FPS, or even more, depending on what sort of signal you would like to send. This over here will pick up the signal. So let's say, for example, I would like to send a signal of 8K at 60p. I enter that, and as you can see, our analyzer is going to pick up that signal. Astrodesign is like a world-leading company doing this kind of stuff. That's right. It's a world-leading company that specializes in tests and measurement equipment. Not only that, but we also specialize in 8K devices. So is this Linux? No, this is not Linux. This is Astrodesign-based OS. So this is a specific OS made by Astro? Made by Astro for testing purposes. And it's got all the functions that every company doing. TV, cables, consoles, they all need this stuff. They all need something like this test platform to get everything tested. The mic, no problem. If you want to jump in, you can grab his mic at some point. And this device right here is also crucial to receive the signal. Yeah, so this right here is a protocol analyzer. So it essentially acts as a sync device, and you can emulate any kind of television you want it to, essentially as well. So if you connect this analyzer to a television, you can grab the television's EDID, and this analyzer will now become an emulated television system. So this is used for debugging and certification process for HDMI. Alright, maybe you can just clip it on right here. So, what kind of hardware is happening inside here to make this work? Hardware is one of the very first HDMI 2.1 capable... Chipsets? Just wrapped here, yeah, sorry. So, yeah, what do you think? We utilize the newest HDMI 2.1 chipsets available in the market place. Sorry, the signal, yeah, just so it's not behind. Okay, sorry, no problem. It's a cheap transmitter. No worries. So, what do you say? So we do utilize A6 chipsets that are HDMI 2.1 ready and compatible. Because we're so cutting edge, we reach out to the companies that are first developing these chipsets and implement them into our devices. And are they in Japan, these companies? It's like, where'd you go to Taiwan with TSMC or something like this? For HDMI 2.1, we are partnering with a Japanese company for these chipsets. And so you are the first in line to get the new chip that does something crazy advanced? Yes. So that means the chips are not so cheap, right? They're definitely not. This test equipment in its nature is not a cheap item to begin with. So with the capabilities that we can do with this, essentially we can create and test any type of HDMI 2.1 device that's created. And how many of these do you sell like in the US? Is that secret? But is it like 50, 100? There's like so many companies that need this. Imagine all the television manufacturers that are on the show floor today. Imagine every one of them picking up about five to six of these signal generators. Imagine a lot of these cable makers and anyone that has an HDMI logo device on their device such as like ABM Proceivers. Imagine them picking up like one to five protocol analyzers per team. And like design houses. Yeah, they're the R&D research development. This is a product development type of products. Because then the design houses may be working with dozens of companies doing dozens of different products. But maybe they just need one of these. Right, so we do work with a lot of the chip manufacturers that are on the show floor today. A lot of them do tests with Astro Design in order to verify their chipsets. So is this the first device that's able to do full HDMI 2.1, this kind of stuff? Essentially yes it would be. Because without these devices you cannot make your HDMI 2.1 devices and set-top boxes without verification. So you would definitely need items like this. So in terms of a world's first, it's another Astro Design world's first to provide a device that can output all of these signals and patterns as well as receive them. There's no competition, like people just give up trying to compete? I wouldn't say that. There's always competition. There's always someone that's striving to do what we're doing. But in terms of timeframe, in terms of launching first, Astro Design is typically one of the first companies to launch. How long has it been happening? We've been doing this since 1977. Oh, that's like more than 40 years? Yeah, it's quite a long time. So we were the first company to launch the very first digital programmable signal generator and we've kind of grown our company from there. 77. 77. What was happening in 77? 77 was... AVI. Yeah, that's still the analog video days. That's way before my time. So analog kind of test things? Analog video signals during that time. There was no programmable generator at that time and our company founder, Shigeki Suzuki, went ahead and developed this programmable signal generator. Is the founder still around? The founder is still in control of the company, that's correct. Doing all the decisions? He does make all the decisions still, yes. He's still at the top, sitting in Japan. Does that mean you're a huge company or you're not actually that big? We're actually an engineering house company. So we're about 177 to 200 employees in Japan and we have a distribution network around the globe and the United States, we're a team of three right now. How about you say it's an Astro OS? So it's not Linux based? Not Linux based, not Windows based. Developed particularly for signal generation or particularly for the protocol analysis. So we don't run on a PC based system. A customer because it's expensive, a customer can have like some request and you kind of add it? Well we can definitely add features if need be. It's happened in the past. We are one of those rare companies that can customize products depending upon customer needs. So we're always open to collaboration. So this is 2.1, so it's cutting edge but I'm sure there's something even more cutting edge than this. Depending upon standard bodies and how everyone's moving in the marketplace we kind of follow along with what's happening and if it's something that excites us then we'll go ahead and attack it. Do you do a lot of work with HDR? Oh yes, HDR. HDR certification is one of our big things that this VG879 can do as well. We're definitely within certification programs such as the AK Association, UHD, what else are we? HDR10+, we can also verify Dolby Vision for instance with some Dolby Vision patterns that are licensed by Dolby. So we can test all of those HDR items as well. And how about micro LEDs, projectors? They all just use the same stuff? Or you do different things for different type of technologies? Essentially those are display technologies. The signal itself doesn't really change. So how the signal is sent and processed doesn't change but how it's displayed would be the micro LED or the projection. And we can do all of those things as well. Astro design, maybe it's got to do with all this going on the moon and stuff. So that was happening in 1977. Astro design as a name is kind of a mix of a Japanese word of asa, which is tomorrow, and toro which is to grab. So Astro is let's grab tomorrow today. So grab tomorrow today to design. It's kind of where Astro design comes from. So I guess every day in the office or when you are in Japan at the office it's probably like the coolest place in the world to be seeing what other people are going to be having eight years later. Yes, it's a good preview of future technologies to come and we're not afraid to go out and attack it first and try it first. So I guess in the office in Japan there's got to be some crazy cool AK displays about eight years ago. Yeah, yes. We do have one of the very first AK displays sitting around in our office. Well, well used by now. And AK camera, the first one. AK camera, very first AK camera, 2013 Cube camera that's now evolved into a smaller body which we can now do AK 120 Hertz out of which is absolutely fantastic. The size of my camera. Besides your camera. Is it the same size? It's compact. You have one in the box? It's a cool catalog. So this size. This size camera. It's AB. It's a little bit bigger than my camera. A little bit larger. It's definitely a video camera for sure. Production video camera. I need to get one so I can do AK YouTube. It'd be fantastic for that actually. So what's the price? The price of this guy right now is about $120,000. So it's more than a house? Yes. So to get the world's first technology is the world's first price. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars for this one? Can you get a bundle discount? Signal generator itself. Prices will range around starting from $30,000 all the way up depending upon how you customize the generator. And the protocol analyzer we're starting at $50,000. So it's at least like a Tesla? It's definitely designed for companies to purchase. For them it's nothing. It's a no-brainer. It should be a no-brainer for them to invest in something like that because the return that they receive is far greater than that initial cost. But like you were showing this amazing video editing break over there are you expanding into getting more customers? Or you have enough because you have all the people that do this stuff? As any business exists we would love more and more business and more and more customer base. The great thing about AstroDesign is we're actually very very selective with who we work with and how we process because we are a small engineering team. So whatever interests us is what we go for.