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Jesse Conti

Jesse Conti

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I am looking to get a fairly cost effective, reliable wireless Directors monitor setup. I've seen a few off brands that could be promising, but to me the Paralinx paired with a Samsung 27" 1080p LED monitor seems worthy. Looking to keep it under a grand. Any recommendations?
 
I have been using a paralinx with a blackmagic monitor for 2 months straight and its rock solid. I am feeding to another normal 'pc' hdmi monitor and both look fine. Not great in bright sunlight but otherwise no issues.
 
I third the Paralinx but I use the Arrow.

Ran into some issues using either a Samsung 22" for stationary or Small HD DP-4 for mobile.

I dont have any experience with anything else but I can tell you the Arrow + was worth it :)
 
I use a SmallHD AC7 OLED, with a Teradek Bolt Pro and an IKAN handheld rig, plus Panasonic DG-54 batteries. Works well, and is pretty inexpensive...
 
Nyrius aires pro works remarkably well for the price. If you have a few more bucks to spend, then the Paralinx, a few more bucks from there, go with the teradek.

Nick
 
Thanks, guys! I was debating SmallHD Directors Rig, but a little out of my price range at the moment. Mostly just for client observation and playback. I'll have to look up the range with the Paralinx and the Nyrius.
 
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Paralinx is worth the extra few $ IMHO 1 > 1 but especially considering Arrow + will multi-cast...

Thank you,
 
I second the Nyrius, side by side it has the same range of a Paralinx Arrow (it is essentially the same circuit board in a "For home" case) You can buy 2 or 3 for the price of 1 Paralinx Arrow.
 
This has been discussed already and no, these units are not identical. One is a cheap reverse engineered attempt at a knockoff without the same antenna system, intelligence, robustness, and certainly not the support. Refurbished Arrow & + systems are available at a great price, & the warranty and support bring us much peace of mind for such a critical link in the production chain. And the knock off will never multi-cast...

Hope this helps,

Karl Janisse said:
I second the Nyrius, side by side it has the same range of a Paralinx Arrow (it is essentially the same circuit board in a "For home" case) You can buy 2 or 3 for the price of 1 Paralinx Arrow.
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Kevin Kwok said:
I've been eyeing this because of the onboard power options http://www.kinefinity.com/shop/pro_wirelessmonitoring_solution/?lang=en

Priced at $1,290.
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I have this one. I got it with a second receiver.
Very handy with onboard battery option as well a s7-17V power input range. No more frying 5V power inputs haha. It has a nice LCD display, connects very quickly and is very stable. It does show about 1-2 frame of latency but it could be my camera. I have to test.
Also the plastic housing, while light weight and pretty high quality- its not "rental" product level- it think the antennas and housing may get damaged pretty quickly by rental clients.
They also offer a 1000 ft SDI version- a lot more expensive (almost triple that) but that one is built like a brick shithouse. Definitely a rental level product. I haven't had the chance to test it yet- too busy working- but I should get to test the 1000ft module next week...
 
Regardless of it's origins, or whether the chicken or the egg came first, the nyrius is a pretty good option. I think the hdmi sillyness is the downfall of both systems. You can buy the paralinx crossbow which is a pretty cheap way to unfuck the system. I believe I have destroyed three nyriuses, and had it been paralinx, they would have broken just as bad, the HDMI is just a bullshit conector. I would be way madder if I had destroyed 3 paralinx systems. Since I got the crossbow I haven't killed one.

I have a drawer full of 2-$4000 video transmitters that suck . Transvideo titan, modulous, etc. I am all for spending as little as possible on video transmission because it is finicky, short lived, and soon to be replaced. Any way, that's video assists problem ;-)

Nick
 
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