Features & Benefits
- The WVR7x20 Series offers Dual Link, SD, HD, analog video, and audio monitoring options in one platform
- The WVR7120 measurement and monitoring options provide a flexible range of configurations to maximize productivity
- Industry-leading Loudness monitoring capabilities
- Loudness Trend Chart with adjustable display window
- Simultaneous CEA608 and CEA708 Closed Caption monitoring
- Adjustable Dolby Guard Band limits with Dolby Guard Band metering
- Automatic Format Description (AFD) detection with automatic graticule display
- Broadcast Flag/CGMS detection
- Black/Frozen picture detect
- Numerical and graphical display of A/V delay for analog, digital, and Dolby audio formats
- Simultaneous A/B input support to extend monitoring functions
- High-performance physical layer measurements are essential to resolve difficult troubleshooting tasks
- CaptureVu® advanced video capture simplifies troubleshooting of intermittent errors
- Monitoring of three user-defined Vertical Ancillary (VANC) data types on the Auxiliary Data Status display – including user-definable names for the three VANC data packets with reference to their respective DID/SDID values
- Simultaneous monitoring of 16 channels of embedded AES audio on the audio level bar display. Option AD, DDE, or DPE required
- Preset Save Confirmation
- Exceptional audio monitoring with options for analog, digital, and Dolby Digital, Dolby E, and Dolby Digital Plus
- Tektronix See and Solve™ displays facilitate compliance verification with FlexVu™, the most powerful four-tile display available
- SNMP and Ethernet remote interface capabilities to facilitate centralized monitoring and control
- Instrument presets for quick recall of commonly used configurations
- Digital cursors for precise time and amplitude measurement
- Teletext decode and display capability helps operators quickly verify these data services
- Standard and user-definable Safe Area Graticules facilitate editing tasks reducing the need for reworks and format conversions
Applications
- Monitoring and compliance checking in content distribution and broadcasting
- Quality control in the content production and post production
- Equipment qualification and troubleshooting in the installation and maintenance of content creation and distribution facilities and systems

Multiformat support grows with your needs
WVR7120
Precision and leading-edge capabilities such as Physical Layer Measurement, Patented See and Solve™ Displays, CaptureVu, A/V Delay Monitoring, and Simultaneous Input Display make Tektronix the brand of choice for applications that require deep signal analysis and unquestionable accuracy.
The WVR7120 features the complete range of options of the product family and comes standard with SD video. It provides high-performance monitoring and measurement for applications from Analog Composite to SD-SDI, HD-SDI, and Dual Link video inputs with support for a variety of audio formats:
- Video Monitoring
- DL (Dual Link)
- HD (High Definition SDI)
- SD (Standard Definition SDI)
- CPS (Composite Analog)
- Audio Monitoring
- AD (AES, Embedded, and Analog)
- DDE (Dolby Digital and Dolby E)
- DPE (Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby E)
- Measurement and Analysis
- EYE, PHY (Physical Layer)
- SIM (Simultaneous Inputs)
- AVD (A/V Delay)
This instrument supports flexible combinations of options and upgrades, providing an excellent solution for multiformat environments while protecting your investment. For complete details regarding option and feature availability by model please refer to the section of this document on ordering information.
WVR7020
The WVR7020 provides an ideal solution for basic monitoring of Analog, Digital, SD, HD, and Multiple Audio formats. This flexible solution comes standard with SD-SDI video monitoring and can be equipped with options and upgrades to monitor different combinations of HD-SDI, Dual Link, and Composite Analog video. WVR7020 is an intelligent choice that prepares you for format transitions, growing with your needs.
Available audio options include support for Analog, AES/EBU, Embedded, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby E formats.
WVR6020
The WVR6020 offers performance monitoring capabilities for SD and Analog Video formats.
The AD audio option available for WVR6020 offers monitoring for Analog and Digital Embedded or AES/EBU audio.
Available monitoring options include Composite and Analog/Digital Audio.
From Analog to Advanced Digital Video in One Platform
Ideal for multiformat environments, the Tektronix family of waveform rasterizers provides flexible options and field-installable upgrade kits to monitor diverse video types including Dual Link, SD/HD-SDI, and Composite Analog.
The WVR7020 and WVR7120 Option DL features Dual Link SMPTE 372M compliant monitoring with SMPTE 352M automatic format detection and selectable display of Alpha Channel. The latest WVR7x20 firmware includes monitoring for 2K Dual Link with XYZ Color Space on Option DL.
These instruments allow for monitoring of link A, B, or the combined input with a comprehensive set of displays and status report tools.
The Tektronix Timing display proves a valuable ally in maintaining correct timing between links A and B. This simple indication on the Timing display confirms the links are correctly connected.
Monitoring display modes such as Waveform, Vector, Gamut, Timing, Status, and Audio are available for the monitoring of Dual Link and other formats.
Each WVR7x20 Series instrument supports any combination of video and audio format options, so the platform excels on multiformat environments and evolves with your needs to protect your investment.
See and Solve™ with Tektronix Displays

See and Solve™ displays detect and address problems quickly and efficiently
Tektronix See and Solve™ displays simplify video monitoring tasks such as calibration, error detection, and content correction allowing users to detect errors at a glance and troubleshoot them efficiently.
Specialized session and status displays provide summarized, yet comprehensive reports of conditions and measurements of content parameters. The powerful Error Log is configurable and provides detailed reports for up to 10,000 events which can be downloaded using a web browser. Alarms can also activate ground closures and SNMP traps simplifying centralized monitoring of multiple programs.

FlexVu™, the display that adapts to your work practices
The FlexVu™ four-tile display provides maximum flexibility to increase your productivity.
Unlike instruments with predetermined view combinations or limited choices, FlexVu™ lets you create a multiview display tailored to your specific needs and work practices.
Each tile can be configured to enable easy signal analysis such as multiple alarm and status screens, different Safe Area Graticules and cursors on each tile, and more.
Tektronix displays offer the sharpest CRT-like trace quality for clear waveform monitoring without pixelation distortions.
The patented Tektronix Diamond, Split Diamond, and Arrowhead gamut displays simplify the process of verifying gamut compliance.
The Diamond and Split Diamond displays help easily identify and correct RGB gamut errors in digital video signals. The Arrowhead display saves time in verifying composite gamut compliance on analog and digital video signals.
User-selectable gamut thresholds let you tailor these displays and the associated gamut alarms to your particular compliance standards.
You can also select bright-up conditions to see the location of gamut errors on the picture display.
The picture display can simultaneously detect and decode CEA608/708 Closed Caption. Teletext subtitle pages can also be decoded in either 625 formats or using OP47 Ancillary data. Flexible Safe Area Graticules allow for quick placement of graphics, titles, or logos. Using FlexVu™, users can see two or more pictures with different graticules or closed caption displays.
Screen captures can be made through the local network. These can be initiated:
- Manually
- Automatically at specified intervals
- By an error trigger
Top Reliability on Physical Layer Measurements

Physical Layer options provide precise measurements and powerful displays
Tektronix is the technological leader for eye/jitter measurement solutions.
Option EYE and PHY provide unique capabilities such as reporting jitter levels above 1 UI and jitter filters from 10 Hz to 100 kHz.
An easy-to-interpret gauge provides direct readout for jitter measurements. The user can configure timing and alignment readouts to be displayed simultaneously to effectively isolate the sources of jitter.
The SDI Signal Status display summarizes key signal parameters such as signal strength, cable loss, and estimated cable length measurements.
Additionally, Option PHY provides exclusive Tektronix jitter waveform displays to view the jitter related to line and field rates. This option automatically measures eye amplitude, rise/fall time, and overshoot/undershoot.
With FlexVu™, you can simultaneously display timing and alignment jitter values, cable parameter measurements, and display different eye patterns to help quickly diagnose and resolve problems related to SDI timing jitter or cable attenuation.
Simultaneous Input Display Boosts Monitoring Versatility

Simultaneous Display, virtually two instruments in one
Option SIM takes multiformat monitoring to a new level.
This capability helps operational staff quickly determine if a video quality problem existed in the input signal or arose in their facility. It lets engineering staffs quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve technical problems introduced by a piece of video equipment by quickly comparing the input and output signals at each point of a chain.
This feature is especially helpful when checking for transparency during format conversion or for comparison of simulcast HD and SD programs.
FlexVu™ enables flexible and intuitive configuration of displays from two monitored inputs.
With WVR7120 Option SIM, you can display simultaneous fault detection, status reporting, alarm generation, and error logging.
The patented Tektronix Timing display can be used for each source to time each input relative to the reference or measure the timing between each input.
Audio and video signals can be displayed independently for each input.
Monitoring of Auxiliary Data

Specialized tools like CaptureVu™ provide detailed content analysis
New tools to monitor Ancillary data are now available on the WVR6020, WVR7020, and WVR7120 instruments.
With FlexVu each tile can display different CEA608/708 Closed Caption and individual Teletext subtitles or pages. The Auxiliary Data display decodes Ancillary data such as Active Format Description (ARIB information and aspect ratio that can be monitored using Active Format Descriptor, Video Index, or WSS) and ARIB information.
Aux Data Status provides summary information on a variety of metadata such as CEA608 or CEA708 Closed Caption, Broadcast Flag/CGMS, Teletext, ARIB, Time Code, Active Format Description (AFD), Video Index Aspect Ratio, and Wide Screen Signaling.
Today there is a wide variety of metadata providing information to various equipment through the processing chain. Monitoring of this metadata is critical to ensure that the processing equipment correctly handles the signal. For instance, correct format of the AFD ensures that the aspect ratio on the display is correctly formatted and automatic graticule display is available for the picture display of the waveform monitor along with the binary data and text description.

Aux Status Display
Option DDE enables the display of VANC Dolby in Dolby Status display.
CaptureVu™, standard on WVR7120, captures the data of a video frame to recreate any trace display and analyze its digital structure. Captured data can be downloaded through the Ethernet port, using a web browser.
AFD Detection on Aux Status display, with automatic graticule and descriptive information in the picture display.
Asset protection using the Broadcast Flag/CGMS – A presence is displayed in the Aux Status display.
Monitoring of three user-defined Vertical Ancillary (VANC) data packets on the Auxiliary Data.
Black/Frozen Picture Detect (Alarm only)
The Black and Frozen frame alarm detect can be used to alert the operator to a problem in the transmission chain. These and other errors can automatically be logged in the error log and provided as a report.
Loudness Monitoring

Loudness Meter
- Measure Loudness and true peaks per ITU-R BS.1770/1771 and ATSC RP A/85 recommendations
- Measure Loudness and true peaks of combination of discrete audio channels
- Measure Loudness of Dolby D, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby E audio channels
- Measure Loudness using infinite or short-term measurement techniques per ITU-R-BS.1770-1 specifications, and display both values simultaneously (user-selectable integration time in increment of seconds for short-term measurements)
- Start/Stop capability for the duration of the segment, showing infinite and short-term measurements
- Simultaneously display Dialnorm value from Dolby metadata and the measured Loudness value on the same display
- Loudness measurement value in LKFS per ITU-R-BS.1770
- Loudness meter is available on the audio-level meter display
Trend Analysis Features

Audio Loudness Session

User-selectable Vertical Scaling

User-selectable Time Intervals
- Loudness Trend Chart with adjustable display window
- Storage of Loudness measurement values to USB or through Web UI
Monitoring Tools for Optimum Sound Quality

Comprehensive surround, Dolby, loudness, and channel status
The WVR Series provides high-quality digital filtering and oversampling to insure precise, reliable, and repeatable audio measurements.
For easy monitoring, the WVR audio options provide format auto-detection and flexible mapping of audio inputs to analog or digital audio outputs for connection to external devices.
The Tektronix Surround Display*1 provides an excellent means for viewing special audio relationships.
Specialized audio displays provide deeper insight of the signal. The audio session display summarizes levels, faults, and number of active bits for each channel. The user can select from three loudness filters: flat, A-weighted, and RLB (BS.1770). These instruments also feature Audio Control Packet Data and Channel Status displays.
The Dolby Status display (in Option DDE) gives an in-depth view of integrated or VANC metadata and Dolby E Guard Band A/V timing and synchronization.
User-configurable threshold for the Dolby E Guard Band timing measurement (WVR7120/7020 Option DDE): The user can monitor the Dolby E Guard Band timing and trigger alarms based on their specific guard band parameters.
Simultaneous monitoring of 16 channels of embedded AES audio on the audio level bar display – with Option AD or DDE.
*1 Audio Surround Sound Display licensed from RadioTechnische Werksütten GmbH and Co. KG (RTW).
Facility Timing Made Easy

Timing and Lightning displays simplify timing tasks
Audio/Video synchronization is an important challenge in the processing of video materials.
Option AVD displays the A/V delay on a graphical bar indicator. The measurement readout gives facility engineers the tool to insure system integrity and facilitate A/V delay compliance.
This option provides out-of-service measurement of A/V delay for analog or digital audio and video formats.
A TG700 is typically used/required to generate the SDI signal which contains the audio and video sequence that can be distributed through the system and measured by the waveform monitor.
The patented Tektronix Timing display makes facility timing easy through a simple graphical representation which shows the relative timing of the input signal and reference signal on an X-Y axis.
The Lightning display shows luma and chroma amplitudes and helps you verify component timing using a color bar header signal. The SCH Phase display helps quickly verify the relationship of the subcarrier to H sync. composite analog video signals.
Remote Interfaces Facilitate Centralized Monitoring

WVRFP provides flexibility for remote monitoring applications
The WVR Series instruments can be remotely accessed and controlled through a remote front panel, web interface, ground closures, and SNMP, helping users to integrate these instruments into a variety of remote monitoring applications.
The remote front panel, WVRRFP, with the same user interface as the front panel on the instrument, allows operators to access and control the base unit from a distance of up to 100 feet.
Users can control the WVR from the base unit and from the remote front panel simultaneously.
Through the Ethernet port, users have full control of the monitoring functions and download the alarm log and for detailed analysis or record keeping. This feature allows users to control an unlimited number of WVR instruments from a single Windows computer through a web browser.
The SNMP interface allows easy integration with network management software and advanced remote operation through a MIB browser. For applications in design and manufacturing or master control, this capability also enables automated tasks managed by an SNMP script.