CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

[Phil Smith]

Mark,

It's not about whether SDI is beneficial or not, it's about Gary selling his SDI mod, something he's been told not to do. Selling SDI mods is ALL this thread's about. If he was just sharing with us something he had done for himself, he would gladly tell Walter and Tom how he did it.

Curt,

Well if you don't mind, I don't mind. It's your forum.

[MikeEby]

I will buy into this much more then the balance power thing…Sorry Gary for the most part I think that was pure BS.

SDI-HD mods for Blu-ray have merit, if not to just get away from HDCP/HDMI issues. But I would suggest to Gary to try using open source business model, offering the mod in a DIY format plus input from other forum members could only make the product better. Many people would simply not what to mess around with it and would pay Gary for the modifications. I really don’t know what will happen if MPAA finds out about the mod, it’s possible they could shoot you down quickly where if you sold them as kits it could make that much harder to enforces.

Mike

[Gary M.]

[Gary M.]

[Phil Smith]

[Gary M.]

[WTS]

A PRICK TO YOU?

Why, because I said you filter was BS, I guess if that's being a prick then that I was. Now I think you're the F**king prick, ban the PRICK Curt!

As far as Gary doing the design on the HD-SDI get real, this guy does not have the knowledge to design anything like this and I'm sure he'll admit to that himself. Someone else is doing the design, what part Gary is playing in this I'm sure is very minimal as far as the actual electronic design goes.

Gary you need to stop buffing yourself up and making like you're one smart one here when it comes SDI.

[Gary M.]

[WTS]

True enough, you don't need to be a EE to do mods, but is does help in understanding what it is your doing exactly, instead of doing a piant by numbers job. I do give you credit for doing the mods as you're right not everyone can do that.

[Gary M.]

understood Walter

-Gary

[kal]

Gary, You posted the following text along with screenshots:

[kal]

Gary, You posted the following text along with screenshots:

[nomadII]

This may not get us back on track but years ago I sat right beside the President of VDC as we watched a Xymox modded (Chris Stephens) 9500 being fed an HD-SDi signal from a Teranex.

The VDC guy was impressed but perhaps that is because there was no HDMI at the time?? I'm sure that hypothetically he agreed it would have looked the same.

[Gary M.]

like I said before, this was not a sale post, it was a post to get the word out there about HD-SDI and that it is solid thing for PQ

will a few people contact me because of posting? yes, but again that was not my intention, I am very well aware that I am no longer working with Curt and the forum, why would I come here and post a "sale add" just to piss everyone off and cause problems

I have many many people PMing me and asking what HD-SDI is all about, what it improves, how it does this or that and most find a post like this to be informative and enjoy it

I have already apologized to Curt and said he can delete this thread if he wants, What I don't understand how you guys think that I thought I was just going to place a "ad" (as you guys say) up here and get by with it without causing problems?

basically all this is is the typical kind of post from people who work on stuff like this, we get excited and want to talk about it, sure we sell stuff, but that is not the intention when posting, it is just out of enthusiasm

if people want to find me they can, me posting on this forum talking this is or that doesn't change that

basically when I was here before people acted the same way towards me, and this thread if anything has shown me that the animosity to my mere presence on the forums is proof enough that I am wasting my time here even discussing things and ultimately seeking to return to dealing with the forum would be a disaster, one that I don't need in the least

I have edited my original post so Curt doesn't have to delete this thread, enjoy the show, I am out for good

-Gary

[WTS]

I'd like to read an unbiased review of SDI-HD versus HDMI to hear what others think of the 2 types of data stream formats in a home theatre enviroment. From a manufacturing point I can't imagine it costs anymore to make a set of HDMI ICs vs a set of SDI-HD ICs.

[garyfritz]

[MikeEby]

[WTS]

Hi Mike,

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that thread. Although one minor review like that doesn't make it so, it's a start. I seem to recall that one scaler company said they decided not to go with SDI over HDMI because they really couldn't see an improvement, can't remeber who that info came from.

[Phil Smith]

[MikeEby]

[Phil Smith]

With all due respect to Alan, I don't think he's that knowledgeable about HT.

I'd like to see a well setup, non-biased, double blind test of HDMI vs HD-SDI.