Can TBC2 decode HD source in SD system?

[kristenstewart]

Oh my! In October of 2019 the LZX Newsletter read:

TBC2 is a swiss army knife input module which simplifies the process of getting multiple external video feeds into your LZX modular video synthesis system. Dual channel frame synchronization with genlock, time base correction, HD downscaling and format conversion, still image/loop playback and color decoding. Composite, S-Video, Component YPbPr and Component RGB inputs.

When do you plan on releasing the HD downscaling and format conversion? I ordered the Orion Series many years ago and updates for Diver or Memory Palace have been sorely lacking.

I saw this:

@creatorlars

Yes, Memory Palace Mk2 will follow Chromagnon’s release and be our second Automata instrument. It’s become necessary for supply chain reasons that we combine our hardware for the digital/FPGA heart of all our products to use the same core assembly, so this update will occur before Memory Palace’s next production batch in early 2022.

A move to standardize the FPGA brain PCBA used across multiple products, and update Memory Palace to Gen3 power expectations. This won’t have any effect on future development – firmware will be running on the exact same platform (7Z010), so both versions of the hardware will run the same firmware image and have the same functions.

Usually we completely overhaul things when we revise something, but in the case of Memory Palace we don’t feel the need to make any big changes. So this is more of a form factor update so we can keep it in production and keep developing for it!

I hope there will not be a TBC2 Mk2 before the HD downscaling and format conversion are functional!