The Best Wireless HD Transmitter for under $500

[Matt Fleming]

would this work with the JAG35 LPe6 Canon power supplies? I bought one for my Teradek kit and it works like a dream, they seem to sell connectors to the Asus Wicast... is that similar?

http://jag35.com/new/products/batteryplate/

Hey Dan, your post after this was "PM sent"...was that in response to this? If so, could you send me a private message regarding this too? Or feel free to post for all potential buyer to see as welll...I'm ready to jump on a wireless HDMI and a battery powered solution is what we need. Many thanks...
-Matt

 

[Dan Kanes]

edit

 

[Dan Kanes]

edit

 

[Dan Kanes]

edit

 

[Dan Kanes]

edit

 

[Dan Kanes]

edit

 

[joshua gitersonke]

impressed and unimpressed

impressed and unimpressed

Ok, I just bought a new version of the briteview air sync hd. I have been testing it at home. The thing is pretty amazing, hooks up in less than ten seconds holds the signal through my house out into the street. It's a beautiful hd signal. I'm quite impressed. It's light... I mean light. you could use velcro to hold it on anywhere. That is the good.
The bad is that this is a compleatly diy solution. I want to rip the plastic container off of the pcb and throw it away. It would be nice to have a box machined out of Delrin or something.
Also, I bought the second version of this thing. They could have fit a multi volt input into this thing. I thought the bright view people were listening to feedback.
I think they most likely just rehoused the original pcb.

If anyone has checked the marshall website lately there is a nice little hdmi to hdsdi cross convertor in the works. small and battery operatable.

 

[Dan Kanes]

edit

 

[Michael Panfeld]

- but I will say this:

I did it first.

Uh, well not exactly Dan. I bought one of the first Geffen WHDI units exactly 2 years ago and used it to film my team's entry in the 2009 Baltimore 48 HFP ("Appraised Value" http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=104655544303&oid=21539415843 ) and then again on all of my shorts since then. I built a dual-voltage power supply using a mini-atx power supply that puts out regulated 12v (for my monitor) and 5v (for the Geffen transmitter). I have attached two pix showing the geffen unit (silver/grey) velcro'd to my rails. The power supply unit is below (mounted in a Radio Shack project box). The box has a Dr Wattson monitoring unit built in so I can watch my battery levels. It also has dual inputs so I can hot-swap batteries without interruption. On top of the camera, you can see my Manhattan LCD monitor. In the 2nd pic, you can see the receiver sitting on top of my DIY flypack (between the starbux and my bowl of oatmeal). It is connected to a rackmounted PC fitted with a Blackmagic Design Intensity board. I actually captured wirelessly - no tape in the camera. The Intensity board has an HDMI out, which is connected to a 24" monitor in my DIY Flypack (the bigger monitor in the flypack pic).

I built all of this over two years ago, and was going to write a magazine article about it, so I question your statement that you were the first. Maybe the first to post on Reduser, or the first to do it with the airsynch product, but not the first to piece together a cheap DIY wireless capture/monitor system (or the first to screen a film that used the Amimon chipset in a wireless workflow). Perhaps not as cheap as a airsynch, but definitely chaeper than the $5K camwave using the same Amimon chipsets (and, this was 2 years ago).

The Geffen unit worked great on that 1st shoot. I was in the living room of a house. The camera was in the basement on the other side of the house. Transmission through the floors was flawless. Outside, it goes just about 100 ft. About 50 feet through a brick building.

The Geffen WHDI unit uses the same Amimon chipset as yours (and its the same as the Camwave as well), and are about the same size (6.5" square rather than the airsynch's 7 x 5.66). Although its more expensive than the Airsynch, it also has a switchable mode where a single transmitter can synch with multiple receivers (and you can buy just the receiver units). Can Airsynch do that?

I am still thinking about posting an article. Thoughts on that from anyone?

Anyone in the DC area with a Airsynch that wants to do a side by side test?

 

[Dan Kanes]

edit

 

[Michael Panfeld]

Thanks Dan. I put the whole thing together for about $800. Got the geffen for $700.03 ona pre-order. Geffen also swapped out the chipset for the newer one under a recall/warranty program that was not loudly announced.

No hoops: worked out of the box, just needed to add power supply and velcro. Glad to see lots of options are on the market now. Hopefully, somebody will build a small monitor with a chipset built-in. I know Amimon has partnered with several TV manufacturers to do this with a big screen unit.

Why would I rely on a wireless workflow? Well it saves time in digitizing tapes or downloading cards and, the whole thing with the Amimon chipset was the uncompressed transmission; which fit perfectly with the Intensity board.

Cheers