[Bruce Colgate]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for that (the assembly note). Always good to set expectations appropriately.

One nice thing about that bundle is the power supply is not a wall wart or a line lump – the PS is internal. Perhaps a small thing, but certainly a nice thing.

All the Best,

– Bruce Colgate

[Bruce Colgate]

Hey Erik,

We am having trouble also with the 206 we bought last week from Videoguys, but for us, I do not think it is a Videoguys issue. Encore sees the drive fine, and burned discs do show up on the desktop, but when we go to copy the master in a Blu-ray tower from Microboards, it does not read the disc correctly. Microboards says it is an Encore issue.

I am still waiting for clarification from Microboards, but they broadly said it was a “burning ROM” issue inside Encore; I’m not real sure how to interperate that.

FWIW, our masters do play fine on Panasonic and Sony consumer grade players, and we had the exact same problem with a Sony 100 burner.

As regards Gary and Videoguys.com, I think they’re just stuck in the middle. BTW Gary, it would have been nice to include a note that you have to *build* the drive – the adverts all make it look like it’s preassembled. Maybe I missed the note.

– Bruce Colgate

[Bruce Colgate]

Hi Michael,

2 Frames is a pretty big processing delay for a “live” switcher, particularly since BMD says it only has “1 line” processing delay.

Have you contacted BMD about this problem?

– Bruce Colgate

[Bruce Colgate]

Just in case anyone else needs info (I searched this thread recently to see what others were doing), here is a combo that is working well for us:

Intel BOXDG45ID LGA 775 Intel G45 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB)
Pioneer DVD drive (for installing)
Generic Sata HDD
XP

The case was a recycled rackmount computer we gutted. All from Newegg.com, total cost (not including XP, HDD or case) was about $520.

No dropped frames, looks great. We also use the same box as the server for BMD’s Videohub. I think the 9800 was key.

Monitor we got from B&H – an ASUS 25″ 1920×1200 for under $290 (Model number was something like 466H).

Ultrascope did NOT the smaller monitor (1650 x something) we tried (just because we could). Wouldn’t even launch.

Hope this helps another user.

– Bruce Colgate