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  Quantel Paintbox output to DVI?

  Posted by Jimmy Brunger on November 22, 2007 at 1:02 pm

  Hi all, I’ve posted this in the Blackmagic forum aswell, but thought one of you chaps might be able to chime in with a suggestion?….

  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 something like the BMD 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 1920×1200 display for PAL, because of 2x resizing, but surely 2 x 720×576 is 1440×1152? so should my 1600×1200 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..

  This was my other option:

  https://www.lektropacks.com/view_product_standard.php?product=104&department=2&sub1=17&show=56

  Only thing with this is that looks like the only way to RGB into it is via a scart (presuably with somesort of dodgy phono component>scart converter bolted on aswell…and not sure if this only outputs square pixels? )

  Thanks for any advice anyone has.
  Jim.

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