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Perfect with an Apple Cinema Display
Connect HDLink to the amazing Apple 23" Cinema Display as an ideal monitoring solution for your edit suite. In combination with uncompressed broadcast capture cards such as DeckLink, uncompressed HD images have never looked so good
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Configure and Update via USB
Included free, HDLink Utility lets you configure advanced features such as lookup tables, color settings and blue only mode. Control software is available for both Mac OS X™ and Windows™ with USB 2.0 connectivity allowing firmware upgrades via internet downloadable updates.
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Audio De-Embedding
With HDLink you get the soundtrack in crystal clear 24 bit digital to analog conversion with output using consumer level audio on convenient RCA connectors. Now you can connect to your HiFi system for low cost monitoring.
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Simple to Install
HDLink is really easy to install as all setups are automatic. Just plug in a compatible display, video, power, and you're ready to go. HDLink will check your connected LCD display and automatically display any SDI frame rate and format you need.
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Industry Standard Lookup Tables
HDLink includes original lookup tables from the manufactures of industry leading cameras such as the Panasonic Varicam cine-gamma, and Grass Valley Thompson's Viper camera.
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HDLink Pro, HDLink Pro DisplayPort,
HDLink Optical Fiber
The World's most advanced HD & 2K monitoring solution
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Eliminate the high cost of HDTV monitoring with HDLink - the world's most advanced full HDTV resolution monitoring converter for DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI monitors. Includes the quality of 4:4:4 SDI video, lookup tables via USB and analog audio outputs. HDLink will solve all your monitoring needs.
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Features
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Full Resolution HD Monitoring
HDLink connects SDI video directly to any supported DVI-D and DisplayPort based LCD computer monitor for incredible true HDTV resolution video monitoring. HDLink includes 3 Gb/s SDI for high resolution 2K film monitoring when connected to a large 30 inch DVI display. With every individual pixel in the HD or 2K SDI connection digitally mapped directly to the pixels of the LCD display, you get a perfect digital-to-screen pixel for pixel HDTV or 2K display. Connect any HDMI television or video projector to HDLink for cinema style monitoring! Even large 23 inch CRT based monitors can’t display the full resolution of the HD-SDI signal, but with HDLink you see every pixel in the HD signal, so you'll always see a perfect image. You'll be amazed at the quality of High Definition or 2K video when you monitor via HDLink for the first time. There’s simply no higher resolution HDTV monitoring possible.
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Supports both DVI and HDMI
HDLink supports all DVI-D based digital computer displays and now also includes HDMI video support. HDMI supports video at 1080i/50, 1080i/59.94 and 720p/59.94 on any HDMI device. DVI-D supports displays at 1920 x 1200 (16:10) resolution for all 1080 HDTV formats. When working in 720 HDTV formats you can even use lower cost 1280 x 800 resolution display for pixel for pixel 720p viewing. When working in NTSC or PAL, HDLink can 2x oversize the displayed image making viewing easier. Because most computer displays are limited to approximately a 60 Hz refresh rate, HDLink will automatically apply pull-down to allow video frame rates to be displayed. HDLink includes a built-in Power PC processor allowing automatic adjustment of native display resolutions using VESA E-EDID1.3.
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World's Highest Quality 3 Gb/s SDI in 4:4:4
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HDLink introduced the world’s first full HDTV resolution 4:4:4 monitoring solution that supports both standard definition SDI, HD-SDI and HD-SDI 4:4:4 for full resolution color monitoring. HD-SDI 4:4:4 features twice the color resolution. Conventional SD and HD video is 4:2:2 based, which limits color detail while 4:4:4 HD video preserves the full color detail which is important for critical keying and feature film work.
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HDLink Pro is the first solution for the new high speed 3 Gb/s SDI standard for 4:4:4 RGB and 2K film monitoring. 3 Gb/s SDI runs twice the data rate of normal HD-SDI video, allowing 4:4:4 RGB video to be connected using a single SDI connection. 3 Gb/s SDI also allows full resolution 2K feature film quality 2048 x 1556 video to be connected via SDI.
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Built in Optical Fiber
The HDLink Optical Fiber model is the world's first broadcast monitoring solution with built in optical fiber SDI connections. Optical fiber easily handles long distances, is low cost, and optical fiber cables last virtually forever because you can keep plugging them into faster equipment in the future, and the same cables will go much faster. Optical fiber cables can be installed by your local electrician, and the cables can be purchased from your local electrical wholesaler. That's because optical fiber is used all the time in computer networking, so it's low cost and commonly available! Now you can build a native optical fiber facility!
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Standard Definition, HDTV or 2K
HDLink supports all SDI based formats from standard definition NTSC/PAL to HD-SDI 1080 and 720 and even 2K film resolution when used with DVI displays. HDLink features 3 Gb/s SDI, so also works with real time 2K monitoring as used on Blackmagic Design's Multibridge Eclipse, Multibridge Pro and DeckLink HD Extreme. With HDLink you'll get the best image quality possible with format compatibility guaranteed years into the future. HDLink's SDI video input automatically switches between SD, HD and 2K. Unlike CRT based monitors, HDLink also supports all HDTV frame rates and formats including progressive HD formats.
SMPTE 352M video payload identification ancillary data is used for automatic input format recognition and RGB/YUV color space detection. Color precision is at an incredible 10 bit in both SD and HD formats. Video data is automatically rounded down to the bit depth of the connected LCD display for superior viewing quality.
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Digital to Screen
HDLink connects SDI video direct to your display using DVI-D or HDMI, so you get a fully digital connection to the screen. This totally eliminates noise and other analog limitations to your monitoring.
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Use any Display
Although most LCD computer displays support the EDID display status from the monitor, some monitors and projectors may not. In that rare case HDLink Utility lets you manually override settings so you can find a custom rate that allows your monitor to display.
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Ideal Monitoring with DeckLink
DeckLink cards are the industry leading uncompressed broadcast video card and when combined with HDLink, you have an unbeatable combination. DeckLink has helped thousands of creative people edit uncompressed - now HDLink doing the same for HD monitoring.
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No Switches
Unlike any other converter, HDLink is incredibly easy to setup. Using HDLink Utility connected via USB you can change lift, gain and gamma settings for each color channel as well as upload gamma tables. Settings are saved between power cycles, until changed.
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