As usual, very wise words from Douglas.
Now that I know what your distrubution channel is going to be, I'm able to give you better advice than I did before. Forget about high-end montoring for the time being, go for the Matrox MXO and the Apple dislpay it was made for. The CalDigit (or any other solid RAID5) is fine for your peace of mind and storing your HD originals.
The only Apple device that's ingesting SxS cards directly is a MacBook Pro, and it might be a good solution in the wilderness to free up your cards (but carry an external drive too and backup to that one immediately). You'll want the MacPro at home, since currently the new MacBooks don't work with the MXO. But you can also read your data directly from the camera to the MacPro via cable. There should even be adaptors for those cards in the market right now (or soon to be ready).
Save the rest of your money and keep it in the bank (if you still can find one that's reasonably stable). You may want upgrade one day, like for Blu-Ray authoring once it has reached a reasonable market size.
And, BTW, the Quatographics is one of the cheapest calibrated monitors at this time, but IMHO overkill for you before you go broadcasting.
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http://www.quato.com/english/IP240m.php )
And I'm not just talking about this stuff: we have it, are using it and even test it for others.
Regards,
Uli
Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
