[Jacob Heberlie]

The link I sent was to low-end $400 JVC CRT on BHphoto. It has SDI hookups.

BH photo has the DT-V24L1U listed for: $1,999
and the 20 inch model listed for: $999
They list the SDI version for about $3500

Would I lose anything on the conversion from SDI to HDMI using “nanoView” or some other conversion as JVC suggests? I could also do a straight HDMI connection, w/ the BlackMag card on one of the first two JVC monitors. Would HDMI be worse than SDI?

I could still get the cheapo low-end JVC CRT *and* have enough $$ to buy a regular medium size HDTV and use the HDMI out on the BlackMag card for HD monitoring. Anything wrong w/ that scenario?

[Jacob Heberlie]

I think we are going to get the Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme card and use the SDI to connect to a new monitor. Thanks a bunch!

I like the idea of a CRT, I’m thinking something like this for SD monitoring. Could a CRT like this technically still display HD content? Maybe not at full res? I guess I could get just a separate HD TV and use the HDMI out on the Blackmagic card to monitor HD. I really don’t want to spend 5k on a monitor.