[harshy]

Yes, the previous (as in until today) CG hardware/software was a CasparCG solution which replaced an Aston Motto or similar.

Thing is Caspar can look good, but the deployment at Leeds in particular seemed to suffer from some kind of awful distortion, and the animation was fairly choppy (suggesting that it was trying to render the captions on an integrated GPU or similar).

With the new Ross Overdrive+XPression+Graphite solution the CG is a dedicated crate with a fairly powerful GPU (they were 4070s) within it and a Blackmagic DeckLink card, and is outputting as HD to HD rather than the Caspar solution which was most likely rendering (badly) at 1080p, and then being downscaled either before or at the GVG Zodiak mixer.

Thanks Mike that’s a terrific explanation :-)

My question since all the regions are getting the same HD upgrade say if central control wanted to update the graphics all the regions can receive the updates via some sort of firmware update ?