HD-SDI output on a macbook pro 17″

[Jeremy Garchow]

Those are your two options. My advice? The IoHD as it has input as well as output. The MXO is output only.

Jeremy

[Shane Ross]

[mfassett] “I need HD-SDI output in order to drive my external HD monitor. Problem… the Matrox MXO, the obvious choice which I just received, doesn’t support any monitors that are dual link.”

What? HD SDI Dual Link to drive the 30″ monitor? That doesn’t make sense to me. I thought you needed Dual Link DVI ports to support that monitor. Do you mean you need Dual Link HD SDI to power an HD CRT? I thought that dual link HD SDI was for outputting to HD Decks.

I thought the MXO was dual link…I’ll have to check.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Jeremy Garchow]

His DVI monitor is dual ink, the MXO does not support a dual link monitor connected to it (probably because it needs one of the single links to output video) so it can only push a single link monitor, not a dual link.

Make sense?

[Shane Ross]

OK…but he said “HD SDI Dual Link.” that is what confused me. DVI dual link is what the monitor needs.

I’d like to see if the AJA I/O HD will work with this monitor the same way a MXO works with the 23″ ACD. Because Matrox built in the gamma shift needed to turn a Cinema Display into a color grading monitor, and it has tools to adjust chroma, hue, brightness and contrast….and a blue only option. Wonder if the i/o HD will have that. If not, I don’t see how it could be used to make the 30″ monitor a color grading monitor.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Jeremy Garchow]

I don’t think the ioHD has DVI out…

[Shane Ross]

[JeremyG] “I don’t think the ioHD has DVI out…”

Nope, is sure doesn’t:

https://www.aja.com/html/products_Io_IoHD.html

So there is no way that you can get a nice decent image to the 30″ monitor. The MXO only supports the 23″ model AFAIK…and the I/O HD doesn’t output DVI.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Jeremy Garchow]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think he is looking for a single link HD SDI to drive his HD monitor and a dual link DVI to drive his 30″ for extra computer monitor space. The MXO won’t push his 30″ dual link computer monitor so he either needs to trade down to a smaller computer monitor to use the MXO to push his HD SDI Hd monitor OR not use the MXO and use the ioHD to push the HD SDI monitor and then use his laptop to push to 30″ DVI monitor for more computer monitoring. I don’t think he’s trying to use the 30″ for Hd monitoring.

Jeremy

[Ronin Vidster]

If you have to take the 30″ back and keep the MXO, consider this instead:

https://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=222-7315

It has the resolution of an Apple 24″ (full HD+) but is closer to your 30″ in size. Doesn’t require dual-link. Something to think about…..

[Mfassett]

Actually if you re-read my post… I don’t think I wrote “HD dual link.”

I have an apple 30″ which works great via dual link DVI from my Macbook Pro 17″. No problem.

The Matrox MXO connects to the DVI output of the Macbook Pro and provides an HD-SDI output (which is what I need) among other things.

The Matrox MXO doesn’t support dual link DVI.. in other words, the Matrox MXO connects to the laptop’s DVI output and provides a DVI output for a monitor.. but the MXO’s DVI output is only single link, so it will only support up to 23″ monitors. Thus, either the 30″ goes or the MXO goes. Make sense yet?

So, thus.. what I need is an HD-SDI output to drive my HD video monitor. The MXO doesn’t work for me.

Whew.

So are there any other choices other than the ioHD? That’s the big question y’all!

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[mfassett] “That’s the big question y’all!”

Which brings up right back to my first response. No.

Either trade in your 30 for a 23 and use the MXO, or live with the 30 and get the ioHD.

My recommendation? ioHD.