Thanks for your reply Walter and no offense taken.
Unfortunately I had no say in the purchase, I was told they were arriving and when I made suggestions on what we needed they were ignored but thats how a certain large british broadcasting company operates. I now have three different systems to work with.
As far as codec choice goes I was considering mastering to a quicktime file to be played out from our broadcast server. But looking around the forums there seems to be problems with colours shifting, is this something to avoid or is it a case of getting the export settings right.
Thanks
Nic