Re: Is the Mojo DX the Only Way to Monitor HD?

[Shane Ross]Apple makes money by having FCP work on Apple products only...so you have to buy a Mac, and a good one, for it to work. Avid only makes the software and the capture cards...so to make money they make their capture hardware the only hardware that works.

Makes sense. Avid sells their overpriced capture/display hardware, and Apple sells overpriced Mac Pro's (don't mean to start a "discussion" here about the Mac Pro, but looking at the lower price of the new Intel chips and the higher price of the 2009 Mac Pro, that's the only view point I can arrive at).

One followup question: do I need some kind of Avid hardware just to turn, say HDV or AVCHD into DXnHD? If so, would the Mojo SDI do it, or would I need a Mojo DX? (FCP allows such conversions using software only).

Also, just a little curious if the MXO2 or AJA Kona 3 basically does everything that the Mojo DX does, even if only for FCP

Thanks,
Chris