[William Barns]

I’ve been doing as much reading as I can find on the PVM-20L5 and I think the answer is that it is not a digital monitor. But I’m not 100% sure. In the manuals they talk about it accepting a 1080i signal but they don’t mention if it is via SDI or not. Also there were apparently adapter boards that you could buy to allow for an HD-SDI input. Which leads me to think that it didn’t have that capability out of the box. These monitors are from 2004.

[William Barns]

Thanks for the reply! I’ve thought about the sync issue. I don’t think that’s it though, because the PVM will use sync from an external input as well as a generator. Also if it was a sync issue I should still be able to see something, even if it were scrambled.

When nothing is hooked up to the PVM it just displays a black screen. When I hook up an HD-SDI source I get noise/snow. So some kind of signal is affecting the monitor.

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