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I also own an ArmX1. It‘s been many years that I have tested the G50x and I remember that I liked it, it‘s a good arm for sure. But, for many reasons I would go with the ArmX1, it‘s an amazingly smooth arm, very easy to handle and weighs nothing. On top, I love the mindset of Smartsystem as a company in terms of customer relations. You can always get a hold of them, they‘re very responsive and try to help as quick as possible. So yeah definitely worth its money. Cheers

Well I took the plunge & removed the mini-DIN on the Flyer monitor cable, & answered my own question above. I wanted to rewire my Flyer LE to run a Marshall V-LCD70XHB-3GSDI 7" HD-SDI monitor, which for the money has got to be the best value 7" monitor out there (yeah yeah, it's no Cinetronic, but you wouldn't put a Cinetronic on a Flyer, it costs almost as much as the rig!) but was uncertain about the existing loom specifications. Very happily I found that the original internal Flyer video loom WILL take HD-SDI with good signal strength through the rig. Removing the existing mini-DIN connector revealed SEVEN small wires going to the connector. They are: a Yellow coax video cable, 2 x Red (one coax), 2 x Whites (one coax), a Black, and a Brown wire. From there it was simply a question of putting a BNC on the end of the video wire, and XLR 4 pin on the correct power wires, with some strain relief of course. The Flyer LE now powers the monitor directly and happily runs composite, SDI, and HD-SDI through the rig from the original BNC input on the stage to the new BNC connector at the bottom. I expected to have to run an new cable down the post for HD-SDI, but no need! The Marshall displays 70% signal strength & everything looks very neat and tidy. I'll put some pictures up when I get a mo. This mod will of course allow the Flyer to run any monitor that take XLR 12v power & video through BNC, or RCA with adaptor, & I don't see why this simply fix wouldn't work on an original Flyer, well as LE, F24, Pilot, Scout, etc. which all take composite video through the rig in the same way. Happy flying - now in HD!