Professional grade optics
By basing Balder’s optical engine on it’s bigger brother Loki’s architecture, which features custom designed aspherical glass elements and enhanced low dispersion glass lenses, image quality is in a class of its own.
Topping that, Balder’s chassis and core are built from aluminium and magnesium, which offer exceptional robustness, resulting in the best picture quality ever shown at this level.
State of the art electronics
Our “Pulse” electronics are built on a superior FPGA platform, featuring a dual core processor on the industry’s only 20 nm SoChave, with 96 transceiver lanes delivering 3.3 Tbps of serial bandwidth.
Thanks to our unique single step processing technology (SSPTM), Pulse electronics are designed to process 4K UHD, HDMI 2.0a, HDCP 2.2 and HDR10 signals with extremely low latency. This provides exceptional gaming and movie viewing experiences.
CinemaScope
Our unique aspect ratio detection system, automatically crops and scales content to fit the appropriate screen area, ranging from 1.78:1 to 2.39:1.
Manual cropping is also available for custom configurations such as cinemascope subtitle support, where only the top black bar (letterboxing) is removed, preserving the subtitles at the foot of the image.
Colours
Combining HLD LED illumination with regular LED colours which appear more saturated, the human eye is tricked to interpret this as richer, brighter colours than they are physically measured. Bragi also includes a motorised DCI/P3 filter for improved HDR colour accuracy.
Additionally, Barco’s RealColor processing enables simple and accurate calibration to your desired colour gamut or white point.
PULSE Software Features
- Warp to Center
- Barco Residential has a unique way to handle aspect ratio's within our 16:9 projectors. This feature is called warp to centre. The change between aspect are instant.
- Prospector
- Barco’s web interface: Prospector, provides quick and simple configuration and calibration of Pulse projectors, along with monitoring and diagnostic tools.
- Pulse prospector is available in all the Pulse based products.
- Illumination
- Bragi Cinemascope's Light engine is not using lamp's or lasers, it is using LED's, more correctly ColorSpark HLD LED's. These HLD RGB LED's are used in a new engine developed by Barco. This technology emits four times the light of regular LED technology.
- Warp & Blend
- Warping is the process of digitally manipulating an image to compensate for alignment distortions. Blending allows multiple projectors to be seamlessly combined to create unique digital canvas solutions.
- RealColor
- RealColor is Barco's proprietary colour management system, enabling simple and accurate calibration to your desired colour gamut or white point.
- Latency
- Low latency is desirable to achieve that smoother gameplay and user experience we all want, without input lag. If latency is >30ms, your gaming experience will be compromised, Barco’s latency is <20ms (including all image processing).
