This is a non scientific asset ent, I’m not an engineer and just looking at the results.
For the money you get a great up conversion box. Since it has proc amp and sharpening built in it is more usable than a AJA Kona card. This is especially helpful if you are going from old BetaSP tapes to HD. Of course standards conversion looks good also. There is much that this does that no other capture card/devise does.
The problem is the setting cannot be changed once the thunderbolt cable is plugged in. I talked to a really rude guy at BMD and he said that is the way it was designed to be. You make your settings and than plug it in. Of course that is not what is in the manual. I did hear from someone, not at BMD, that they are working on fixing the problem. I hope he is right and the BMD guy was wrong. My guess is they have to working on a fix. Unplugging and plugging all the time makes no sense.
Since this is only one capture device in my ingest room I can live with this problem and for me I can use it and it is worth every cent. When working fully it will be an even better value.
The main thing that this shows is how different AJA and BMD are as a company. I would never buy BMD gear that was mission critical, other than their mini converters and hubs.