Does IoHD remove color information?

Hello -

I've been using the IoHD for a few months now, and one of the issues I've noticed since using it is that our video doesn't seem to "pop" off the screen. It's never been something I'm able to put my finger on, but I've always felt that it just feels "dull". I always attributed this to the fact that HDV is 4:2:0, and that even with ProRes expanding that to 4:2:2, there's not enough information left to make it "pop".

However, this theory was thrown out this morning as I was digitizing something but realized it looked like it had more color in it. Then I realized that as I was looking at my monitor, I was seeing the straight component feed from the deck, NOT the feed through the AJA box (From my deck it goes HDMI into the IoHD, and HD-SDI to my monitor (and of course FW800 to the computer).

So, does anyone have any ideas off hand why going through the IoHD seems to make my picture look less saturated?

Thanks for any ideas you have.

Carl Sundermann