Why use HD-SDI to DVI converter?

[jimhare]

Just a quick one,

A recurring situation I see on Red User quite a bit is people using HD-SDI to DVI converters for monitoring.

What I can't figure out is why they would invite the added complexity and expense of doing this instead of using the built-in HDMI, which is the same signal as DVI anyway.

Is there a benefit I don't know about?

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Don't use the HDMI, haven't in a looong while, that is, but I think it may disable the SDIs. If that's the case, I can very well see why people try to avoid that...

 

[Karl Gustav H.]

The HDMI signal isn't HDCP compliant, so it can cause quite a few monitors to bug out.

Sorry, I thought you meant HDMI to DVI conversion.

 

[PatC]

Hdmis in the field break a lot! I use a miracube on 3G jobs and the input is dvi...