HDMI for Panasonic Plasma?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Will HDMI do SD? Why not get another component board for the Plasma and a D/A from AJA?

[Tom Brooks]

[JeremyG] “Will HDMI do SD?”

Jeremy,
Thanks for the response.
Not sure about that. Can a cheap little HDMI board flexibly drive the plasma with 525i29.97,720p59.94, as well as several 1080 flavors?

The reason I want to employ the SDI output from the Kona is that it can then be programmed separately by the Kona control panel. In other words, I can edit HD, monitoring via HD-SDI and simultaneously downconvert to 525i29.97 on the component cables.

Trouble is, I also want that plasma to function (albeit as a compromise) for SD edits. The Hi5 converter is dual rate – HD and SD. But is the HDMI board for the plasma going to be happy with both? The AJA rep seemed to think it would be.
-Tom

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yeah, I’m sorry I don’t really know. I’d call Panasonic on that one.

On the other hand, if you get an SDI to Component converter, you can send both HD and SD to it as well.

https://www.aja.com/html/products_converters_HD10C2.html

Jeremy

[Walter Biscardi]

[Tom Brooks] ”
Does anybody have experience or knowledge of the quality of the combination of a Kona Hi5 SDI-to-HDMI converter and the HDMI input board for the Panasonic TH379UK plasma?”

Havne’t used that converter, but as AJA makes it, I’m sure it works extremely well.

We monitor all our HD material via Component to the Plasma but we did install the HDMI board two weeks ago for our BluRay player. It works just fine.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Tom Brooks]

Walter,
Do you also edit some SD stuff? Do you use DA’s to distribute the component to the Sony CRTs alongside the plasmas? Do you use SDI for any monitoring at all or just for mastering to VTRs? Thanks.
BTW-Enjoyed the blog about Bob Zelin’s work at your facility. Looks like a quality job.
-Tom

[Walter Biscardi]

[Tom Brooks] “Do you also edit some SD stuff? Do you use DA’s to distribute the component to the Sony CRTs alongside the plasmas?”

Yep, still edit SD. We send the Component signal to the Sony Monitor and then loop out to the Panasonic Plasma.

To master to BetaSP we use the Io LA. Gives us another component output or we simply patch out the Component output to the Beta Deck.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Tom Brooks]

Ok. That’s a sweet setup with the LA. I like the sound of this AJA Hi5 to the Panasonic HDMI, but it almost sounds too good to be true. Both HD and SD and that cheap terminal board on the Panny?

Have you had any occasion whatsoever to put SD into the HDMI input of the plasma?

Thanks.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Tom Brooks] “Have you had any occasion whatsoever to put SD into the HDMI input of the plasma?”

Nope, we only run BluRay via HDMI.

SD does not look all that good on plasmas. They’re designed for HD and when you run SD you really see the separation in the interlaced footage. Fields have large gaps in them so we never use the Plasmas for SD viewing. Just the Sony CRT’s.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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