Matrox MXO

[Walter Biscardi]

Or your can look at an AJA Io which connects via Firewire. You can use this on the current machines, desktop and laptop, and future machines.

I’ve had one over two years now and it’s a great complement to our Kona systems. AJA has a long track record with FCP and has tremendous support and is a favorite of broadcast companies. For my money, I’d stick with AJA.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Chris Poisson]

There’s a disscussion about this about two months back.

[Ben Holmes]

If you believe what Matrox say about the quality (hoping to see it at IBC) then it depends whether or not you need a card that’ll do capture as well. If you don’t, and you’re not interested in similar DVI-HD/SD-SDI products from AJA or Blackmagic then fine. Mac users are understandably nervous of Matrox. The claims about reclocking a DVI output so that it’s good enough for broadcast/edit to tape are interesting. Certainly, I wouldn’t use our AJA DVI-HD-SDI box for that…

I was considering it so that we could feed an LCD HDTV via re-clocked DVI for clients – obviously we use CRT HD monitors for ourselves, but it’s an alternative for our current systems. If you had a requirement to make presentations or other grapics available in a broadcast enviroment, it could also act as a cheap scan-converter…

If you just want an SD out, you could just buy a $299 Blackmagic card anyway. Couldn’t you fit that in your G5, or is it full? Never managed that.

Read the other thread – it’s an interesting discussion involving people who tested it. And I used to be an RTMac user. Forgive and forget? We’ll see.

Ben

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