DigitalBroadcaster Elite 32 Anyone used one?

[Jose]

What was the overall impression? How good was the quality?
And the software by the way?

[Jose]

@Framiga

I've read somewhere that it can reach 2:1 compression overall so the quality is completely preserved. Shame that only a few seem to have been produced. You have one right? Do you know if it can accept the RGB signal of most consumer devices or it only accepts the more pro component Betacam SP ?

[Jose]

Seems good alright. There are a couple of things that make me not go out and try to get one thought: the lack of digital in/out interfaces and the simple fact that I would be paying too much for something that wouldn't be much used after all, wich are the very high quality analog/digital converters (and D/A) and companion circuitry. From the few stuff I managed to read about it on the net those have really hight quality chips in there but since today it's all digital it would be a waste really.

[Jose]

Hmm,maybe with a Spider. Someone should make drivers for some Firewire cards for busboards, I wonder why it hasn't happened before. Maybe current busboards are not up to the job? Still, Firewire has 400, 200 and 100 Mbits/second. The lower speed is just a bit more than 12Mbytes /second so maybe that the problem. ZorroIII could handle it but I guess there's noone up for the job anymore.