Buying Equipment for Editing
by Jonathan Holm
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Aug 21, 2008 at 8:53:18 pm
Hello,
I am trying to buy a cheap DV box that accepts firewire out of my G5 and can go into my HD TV. I'm not looking to go Kona yet, unless there is a relatively cheap Kona card that accepts firewire.
Re: Buying Equipment for Editing by walter biscardi on Aug 21, 2008 at 10:23:37 pm
[Jonathan Holm]"I am trying to buy a cheap DV box that accepts firewire out of my G5 and can go into my HD TV. I'm not looking to go Kona yet, unless there is a relatively cheap Kona card that accepts firewire. "
Feeding a firewire SD signal to an HD TV will look terrible, just so you know. HDTV's do not display SD that well at all in the first place, even 10bit SD uncompressed does not look great on an HD TV. My Panasonic Pro Plasma makes SD look just terrible. Mainly because you're taking a 720x480 image and then stretching it up to 1920x1080, quadrupling the size of the image.
I'm saying this because you will be very disappointed with the image if you get a cheap Canopus Firewire box to output DV or SD via Firewire and feed it to an HDTV. Or any SD signal to an HDTV.
Have you looked at the Matrox products? Might be what you're looking for. But again, any SD signal to an HD TV is not going to look great. The only HD monitor I've seen that displays SD beautifully is the $8,000 TV Logic LCD display.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
