Premium Members Jens Piotrowski SOC Posted August 13, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 To those of you who are still loving your TB-6, that includes me. Greg is working on a HD-SDI upgrade for his TB-6 monitor. This is a true digital input board not a "build in down-converter". It will make the TB-6 HD-SDI compatible and increase the picture quality significantly. Cost and availability are not know at this point. Older TB-6 monitors will be upgradable. Hold on to you green screens..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted August 13, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 To those of you who are still loving your TB-6, that includes me. Greg is working on a HD-SDI upgrade for his TB-6 monitor. This is a true digital input board not a "build in down-converter". It will make the TB-6 HD-SDI compatible and increase the picture quality significantly. Cost and availability are not know at this point. Older TB-6 monitors will be upgradable. Hold on to you green screens..... He was talking about that at Cinegear, it's going to be part of the Digital PDL, but in the end it puts out a analog signal for the TB6.... After changing to a color monitor I'll never go back to a green screen, it's too limiting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members RonBaldwin Posted August 13, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 I put my tb6 on Friday for some day work and jeez do I miss it! This would be such a great option in his new pdl! I don't care about missing the color...I already have a moral ambiguity, so color, black/white, green...it's all good to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Jens Piotrowski SOC Posted August 13, 2012 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 to my knowledge it's a stand-alone TB-6 board upgrade and not part of the HD-PDL, which is in its final stages of testing...and will be available first/soon. and yes, the final signal going to the TB-6 tube is obviously analog but not a "down-converted to ntsc" signal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted August 13, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 to my knowledge it's a stand-alone TB-6 board upgrade and not part of the HD-PDL, which is in its final stages of testing...and will be available first/soon. And it's still a NTSC downconverter. you can't digitally drive a flyback coil it has to be analog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Jens Piotrowski SOC Posted August 13, 2012 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 How do all the reference HD-CRT's work then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Eric Fletcher S.O.C. Posted August 13, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 How do all the reference HD-CRT's work then? Same way, convert to analog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Jens Piotrowski SOC Posted August 14, 2012 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 that's takes me back to the fact that any digital camera is an analog camera first.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Thomas English Posted August 16, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Am I to understand that it will be a higher resolution analogue driver in the TB6 then? So there will be a perceivable resolution increase? Will the TB6 still be able to take an SD signal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Jens Piotrowski SOC Posted August 16, 2012 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 details are still emerging, as i understand this, it will maximize the quality of the TB-6 (tube) and provide a direct HD-SDI compatibility including a set of framelines...i have a feeling it might loose the SD (NTSC) input, but I'm not sure at this point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Jens Piotrowski SOC Posted August 19, 2012 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted August 19, 2012 update: confirmed, the TB-6 will keep it's NTSC analog input through the 8 pin Lemo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Jess Haas SOC Posted August 20, 2012 Premium Members Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 And it's still a NTSC downconverter. you can't digitally drive a flyback coil it has to be analog Being analog doesn't make it an NTSC downconverter. You can be in the analogue world and still have HD(or atleast something higher than NTSC) resolution. I see no practical significance to whether the guts handle things in an analogue or digital world. That said I don't know what the resolution of it will be, but sounds like better than NTSC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Maxwel Fisher Posted March 20, 2021 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 Curious if Greg actually manufactured a TB6 that is HD-SDI compatible or is it still in the works? Looking at the website it seems like it's still just analogue and everyone is down converting externally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Alec Jarnagin SOC Posted March 21, 2021 Moderators Report Share Posted March 21, 2021 Maxwel, There just isn't a market for it. CRT tubes are practically extinct (especially ones of the quality in a TB-6). Putting money into redesigning that monitor seems far fetched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Maxwel Fisher Posted March 21, 2021 Premium Members Report Share Posted March 21, 2021 Alec, Makes sense to me. I finally got one, second hand, so I was curious if this had ever panned out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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