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full-screen output to a computer monitor
Hi guys,
If I’m being cheap and decide to hook up a Dell 23″ LCD monitor as my “broadcast output” screen (not used for colour corection so it’s ok), does the BM Multibridge Pro somehow look at interlaced footage and project it correctly onto the progressive LCD display?I know that if I buy an LCD TV, it can handle interlaced footage correctly but the costs are much higher as I can’t get into 1920×1080 resolution unless I go to a 40″ LCD TV screen. I believe the Matrox MXO box will do this hence why I ask if the Multibridge Pro will do it ?
Regards,
Steve -
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Hi Steve,
The Multibridge Pro has HDMI output whereas your Dell display has DVI-D input so you won’t be able to connect those together. The Multibridge Pro outputs YUV video at native video rates (29.97 and 25 Hz) and LCD computer displays expect RGB video at 60 Hz so that’s why you can’t just use a simple HDMI to DVI cable to make them work together.
You could certainly use the component analog outputs of the Multibridge Pro to connect to the component inputs of the Dell display. This works well and the Dell display does a fine job of displaying the YUV interlaced video on the LCD screen. The Dell display does the color space conversion fro YUV to RGB and it looks very good. It also handles the interlaced video and it looks good although obviously a HDMI-based TV has the advantage of handling interlaced and progressive video natively so it looks better.
Alternatively you could add a HDLink to the spare SDI output of the Multibridge Pro and this would enable you to output DVI video to your Dell display.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
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