Company Overview

Miranda Technologies Inc. manufactures, markets and sells a wide range of professional digital video/audio interfaces and advanced display products to major TV networks, post-production facilities and AV around the globe.

In 1998 Miranda was the recipient of several industry awards including Entrepreneur of the Year, Quebec, The Financial Post's Technology Fast 55 Award and a 50 Best Managed Private Companies in Canada Award.

Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Montreal, Miranda is a privately owned company with over 100 full-time employees. Miranda has earned an international reputation as a forerunner in video digital signal processing (VDSP) and is known around the world for its expertise in the development of digital television & HDTV technologies.

Miranda acquired the product division of AAVS (France) in May

• As part of the agreement, Miranda is to acquire 100%

interest in the jointly owned Miranda-AAVS subsidiary and in the AAVS Hong Kong subsidiary.

Miranda has also opened an office in Tokyo, Japan. The new Miranda office will provide sales and technical support in addition to carrying an inventory of the company's video/audio interface products for the broadcasting and post-production markets. AAVS Asia will become part of the Miranda Asia structure.

Miranda Technologies has agreed to buy the assets of Digipath Video, a designer and manufacturer of a comprehensive line of signal routing systems for the broadcast, post-production, cable, telecommunications, and multimedia industries. The Digipath Sahara routing switcher family features modular units for digital and analog video and audio.

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Legal Name: Miranda Technologies Inc.

Number of Employees: 120

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Products

• Adp Input/Output And Storage Devices
• Adpe System Configuration
• Communications Security Equipment And Components
• Imaging Series
• Kaleido - Multi-image Display System

  The Kaleido multi-image display system redefines signal monitoring by incorporating all the features of a control room monitor wall in a single multi-window display. Kaleido is capable of simultaneously displaying up to 16 analog or digital video signals. Each window can be configured for 4: 3 or 16: 9 aspect ratios and can be independently sized and positioned. Each window can be configured to include dual tally displays and a source identification label. Kaleido allows users to instantly select one of 256 preset layouts. The unit's dual outputs provide user selectable resolution allowing the output to be adapted to a variety of computer, projection and plasma displays. Kaleido is ideal for any multipurpose production control room or for mobile (OB) van applications.

• Microlink Patchfield Converters

  The Microlinks are miniature encoders and decoders packaged directly inside WECO compatible normalized jacks. The Microlinks' unique packaging concept allows NTSC/PAL sources to be encoded and decoded inside the jack, eliminating the need for external converters.

• Miscellaneous Communication Equipment
• Oem Solutions

  Today's rapid product development cycle and complex hardware and software integrations require expert solutions. To help meet these challenges, we've developed a series of high quality hardware video interfaces and signal processing technology for the OEM marketplace.

• Picolink Series

  The world's smallest decoders, encoders and converters! The picoLink Series, part of the Quanta Family of miniature products, offers an elegant and compact line of standalone miniature encoders, decoders and converters with a multitude of interfacing options. All picoLink modules offer excellent price/performance and a simple user interface. A lightweight, compact aluminum body combines with a simplified design to ensure ease of installation and operation.

• Radio And Television Communications Equipment, Exc
• Screen-fx

  Screen-FX is a virtual video wall processor capable of displaying up to 16 real-time image windows simultaneously. Screen-FX provides an ideal solution for interactive studio sets, command and control, multimedia presentations and many other multi-windowing applications. With an intuitive user interface and the ability to seamlessly mix digital video, analog (NTSC/PAL) video and graphic input signals, Screen-FX combines ease-of-use with complete flexibility. Screen-FX offers all the advantages of video walls like programmable sequences, text generations and special effects. Screen-FX supports 4: 3 and 16: 9 ratios, computer generated images (i. e. BMP files), a separate computer background, zoom and 2D effects on individual windows. With its scalable output, Screen-FX can be adapted to every projection display. From staging to control rooms, Screen-FX is the multi-windowing solution of choice.

• Ser Series Of Serializers And Deserializers

  Miranda's plug-in serializers and deserializers are designed to minimize parallel digital cabling for a variety of digital video formats. The SER-100s convert serial/parallel 4: 2: 2 video; the SER-200s convert serial/parallel 4Fsc video; the SER-400s are designed to facilitate the conversion of compressed transport streams to and from the asynchronous serial (ASI-C) and synchronous parallel (SPI-LVDS) interface formats; and the new SER-800s facilitate the conversion of high-definition video from parallel HD to SMPTE-292M serial HD and vice versa.

• Stellar Series (aquila)

  Built on Miranda's third generation de-interlacing and up-scaling technology, the Aquila Upconverter (part of the Stellar Series) sets a new standard of image quality and price performance.

  The Aquila Upconverter provides conversion of 4: 2: 2 or NTSC/PAL sources to HD serial digital. Accommodating the choices and opportunities faced by broadcasters and content producers, the Aquila supports a large number of signal formats including 480p, 720p, 1035i, 1080i and 1080p.

  The highly modular Stellar Housing Frame provides Aquila users an Unprecedented level of flexibility and cost-savings compared to the traditional dedicated black box approach. Multiple Aquila Upconverters can be housed in the same frame if redundancy or multiple channels of upconversion are required.

• Telephone And Telegraph Equipment

NAICS Categories

• 334220 Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing

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