Converting to HD-SDI

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I'm in Australia and using a ton of ImagePros the video company provided. The thing is that I hate using the DVI input on an ImagePro with Catalyst, but I am using non standard images sizes that are normally supported by the analog components of the TH2G which I am also using.

In short, those of you who use TH2Gs know how much a pain it is to use ImagePros with Macs much less TH2G boxes. Obviously I would have been find if I had remembered my DVI detectives but I didn't.

What my question regarding this is how the TVOne Boxes stack up when it comes to TH2Gs. The video company is supposed to be bringing out some 2355s for something that came up but they are not here.

I am excited to get my hands on one to play with it. I am also curious too about the 7200s.

I'm probably going to order a dozen of these here soon so I want to know what pros and cons are.

Some of the issues I have already heard are the scaling and sizing issues they have when used as feeds for LED walls. What I was told by several of the LED techs who've used them is that they are great for converting and genlocking but once you begin to scale and size to a low rez wall, they aren't practical.

Any thoughts on this? I apreciate as much opinion as anyone can offer.

Thanks,

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Todd

If you are only going DVI in and DVI out I would say that the Barco DVI 8x8 Matrix pro is the way to go. Its only drawback is its only a DVI switcher with programmable EDIDs per input.... but its far better solution than DVI detectives, and also means you can have a switching setup for backups.

the downside is there is no scaling or positional stuff, but in truth I really don't like doing that outside of catalyst with LED screens, as it usally means there is latency being added to the system and another point where disaster can bite your gig(lets just say extrons are BANNED on my gigs). And there is no genlock. But for DVI routing they are the business and the latency is a lot less than using a Folsom with DVI in and linking through.


Phil
Philip G Haynes
Live Visual Design and Direction

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Eh Phil... The thread was "Converting DVI to HDSDI. I prefer staying DVI. In fact, I use fibre and a fibre router in my backup path. The clients I have though are all HDSDI and I pass through their switchers which means I have to Genlock.

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Eh Phil... The thread was "Converting DVI to HDSDI. I prefer staying DVI. In fact, I use fibre and a fibre router in my backup path. The clients I have though are all HDSDI and I pass through their switchers which means I have to Genlock.

Sorry, I posted before I had finished my first cup of coffee of the day. Numptie of the day award goes to me I believe