Black Box Converter HDMI to 3G-SDI/HD-SDI - video converter

An easy way to connect an HDMI source to SDI displays or other professional equipment. Autodetects SDI standard on its 75-ohm coax outputs. EDID learning for optimal source-to-screen communications. Handles higher SDI bandwidth of 2.97 Gbps (3G-SDI). Provides up to eight-channel audio support. No software or driver installation required. Easy to configure using DIP switches. Wall-mountable for space-saving installation. Ideal for professional video and broadcast engineering applications this handy converter enables you to connect an HDMI source to a 3G-SDI HD-SDI or SD-SDI display. This way you can use a consumer electronics device or a camera with HDMI output in your SDI setup. The affordably priced device supports an array of HD video formats and provides digitally pure HDMI-to-SDI conversion ensuring no loss in the conversion for both video and audio signaling. Use it in a TV studio post-production digital cinema or AV application where you need to show uncompressed digital video from an HDMI source on a professional SDI monitor or connect an HDMI camera to SDI switching equipment. It also features SDI loop-out via a second coax connector. This way you can display a video on two SDI monitors one locally and the second one in another room. Or use the loop-out to daisy-chain to additional SDI equipment. You can also combine it in an application with our 3G-SDI/HD-SDI to HDMI Converter (VSC-SDI-HDMI) to extend HDMI over coax. The HDMI to 3G-SDI/HD-SDI Converter processes up to eight channels of audio including 7.1-channel or 5.1-channel audio in addition to HDMI video. It can be used with surround sound or Dolby(r) TrueHD audio equipment. For both older and newer SDI interfaces the converter processes bit rates from 270 Mbps up to 2.97 Gbps.