Re: Color - performance with nVidia Quadro FX 4800

>I would love to see how they go around the fact that there is no SDI out of the Quadro, if they can >achieve real time playback on high end data formats, it's an amazing deal, they did say that RT would be >compromised due to hardware limitations, I guess the SDI out is one of those.

They do get around it. They are able to achieve real time playout on a Kona 3 card through some very clever (and very intricate) coding tricks. The "compromise" is in what Autodesk refers to as real time mastering, which is essentially a real time downconversion or cross conversion. The Mac Smoke systems are not capable of that. But for regular real time HD output, they already do that, and surprisingly well.