SDI mod your DVD player

posted Jan 4th 2008 11:01pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: home entertainment hacks

I’m not usually into products, but I like this one. Remember this diy SDI DVD video out mod which lets you send high quality digital video over coax? Thanks to Pixel Magic, you can mod a variety of DVD players to add SDI thanks to the kit they’re offering. At a glance, bt.656 and bt.601 appear pretty similar, but the eval kit from the original only claims to be compatible with bt.601 while the Pixel Magic version is for bt.656.

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7 Responses to SDI mod your DVD player

dan says:

January 5, 2008 at 8:48 am

Looks great, but can it use the audio from the MPEG stream and embed it into the SDI stream as AES?

Not much use if it can’t?

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joegeek says:

January 7, 2008 at 8:41 am

Nice Idea, and I actually could use this application – however PixMagic charges $150.00 for this little bugger. Is this really worth it? Can’t I buy a DVD with coax already or is the quality worth that price?

You tell me

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eRk says:

January 7, 2008 at 10:06 pm

as with the original post, i’m curious what displays accept an SDI input? if this is supposed to be a cheap solution for SDI, wouldn’t we still need a capture device or some high end display? am i missing something?? i found SDI to DVI-D adapters… would this type of mod allow for very long cable runs? might be worth the $$$ in that case.

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jaded says:

January 8, 2008 at 2:22 am

I think this is more about putting an SDI card in a PC and capturing the decrypted and decoded data stream. Sure, you’ll need to reencode it if you want to save it in a compressed format on your machine (and that’s a lossy step) but it renders any tricky encryption or other content protection schemes irrelevant.

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el says:

January 10, 2008 at 3:40 am

Now if they can get me an HDSDI mod for a blu-ray player, I would be in heaven…

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tim says:

January 11, 2008 at 5:43 pm

if this mod is for HD-SDI output, the reason for the mod is that HD-SDI is superior to HDMI in that “with HDMI you’re at the mercy of how well the devices’ HDMI implementation is, With HD-SDI you’re guaranteed to get the untampered with video stream out of the device”
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/archive/index.php/t-700791.html