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HDLink with Quantel Paintbox?
by jimmybee500
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Nov 22, 2007 at 12:30:45 pm |
I'm trying to find a way of monitoring our old Paintbox Express on a Dell 2047FP effectively - we rarely use it, but need it for archived work occasionally and I'm not wasting a Sony BVM broadcast monitor on it for that!
Looking at various solutions I wondered if HDLink would work well? It's SD PAL coming out of the spare SDI o/p from the Paintbox, then DVI into the Dell..
- I know you're supposed to use a 1920x1200 display for PAL, because of 2x resizing, but surely 2 x 720x576 is 1440x1152? so should my 1600x1200 display work ok?
- Also, the Paintbox is an RGB output, not YUV...is this supported/converted by HDLink? I know RGB 4:4:4 is with dual link, but this is not dual link.
- The other thing is 'lag time'. I've tried a cheapy component>VGA converter from Maplin and despite the bad pic quality and no support of RGB it seems to lag behind what you're doing with the cursor..I presume this is a latency with the cheap converter, because my Dell is plenty responsive with Photoshop, etc on my PC? Does HDLink have any Latency issues?
- Does HDLink have a 16:9 switch anywhere so it displays correctly on my 4:3 display?
- Are there any other decent SDI/Component > DVI/VGA converters on the market that might suit me better for SD work rather than HDLink? I've seen a couple from cyp.co.uk, but I don't think they adjust for PAL pixel shape and looks like their RGB input is a scart which is no good..
Thanks for any advice anyone has.
Jim.
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