[Tony Marone]

Hi Bob,

Just so you know, someone does make a low price HD-SDI to HDMI converter.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008D7VJ5M/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i01

https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XJn7INi5L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I have one of these and it works great!

Tony

[Tony Marone]

Hi,

Continuing the above rant:

Are MOST POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS of the Hyperdeck Studio really wanting to spend more money on SSD hard drives than the unit cost in the first place? Do they really want to record uncompressed video that their NLE system might choke on anyway?

I think not in both cases.

Now that the Blackmagic elite have added compressed format recording on the Hyperdeck, why not make the unit able to use standard notebook hard drives. After all, the data rate is 1/5 of uncompressed. I’m sure the regular hard drive could sustain that rate.

This would make the Hyperdeck a superb value, in my opinion.

Tony

[Tony Marone]

Hi John,

I looked at the scaler you bought and guess what? It IS THE SAME EXACT ONE that I have – just with the Atlona name on it. I wonder who made it, TV One or Atlona?

Small world.

Tony

[Tony Marone]

Hi,

I had exactly the same problem. I do video at a large university at their performing arts center, mostly for large meetings during the week. The quest typically has a powerpoint on a laptop. I needed to get the vga out on the laptop into the ATEM switcher. After some research, I discovered the Atlona AT-HD500 PC/Laptop to HDMI Converter with Built-In Scaler. I got it off Amazon and am very happy with the performance.

The only thing you have to do is connect it up to a hd monitor first and set it manually for 1080i output. This is not a fault of the scaler but rather a problem with how the ATEM handles EDID, it does not correctly report its resolution capabilities to the AT-HD500. By manually setting the converter to 1080i once you will never have this problem again as the setting is remembered in the scaler.

I hope this helps.

Tony Marone