hdsdi over triax

[Jeremiah McLamb]

Can I send an HD-SDI signal from my camera (with a converter for the connectors) over triax? I am using a tricaster switcher and i need to do longer runs than an HD SDI cable will allow...and thought maybe the triax will let me go further.

 

[Steve Gibby]

I don't see why not, but Red could confirm that, especially Stuart English.

 

[David Johnson]

Why don't you convert it to fiber? BlackMagic & AJA both have SDI over fiber solutions...

http://blackmagic-design.com/products/atemcameraconverter/
This solution lets you control from up to 28 miles away.

The cable itself might not be as robust, but I'd imagine that converting to triax would reduce quality from 2 signal converters. From what I understand about the SDI over Fiber, it's the same bits over the cable, just a change of the medium they're transferred across.

 

[Stuart English]

The HS-SDI signal on EPIC is to SMPTE spec, so as long as you can accept true progressive 1080p / 23.98 or 29.97 ( v's PsF which we don't support) all existing options should work..

 

[Jeremiah McLamb]

I'm trying to avoid the fiber option if possible because it is so much more expensive. It's $1000 just for the converters from hdsdi to fiber and then back again.

 

[Mike Kushner]

Except that the image will need to be scaled on the other end to fill the whole frame of the 16 x 9 monitor without black borders, correct?