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The Matrox Convert DVI lets broadcasters and video professionals easily take the computer based content direct to air. It adds the option of creating broadcast video from computer applications such as Skype, YouTube, Google Earth, video games, and web browser sessions, as well as journalists’ mobile phone videos.

Quality HD-SDI scan converters with genlock typically cost thousands of pounds each and SDI audio embedders are often required. However Matrox Convert DVI is very inexpensive by comparison and allows system audio to be embedded in the SDI signal. It provides high-end features, excellent quality, and the ease-of-use necessary in broadcast operations.

The Matrox Convert DVI controls are provided via a simple PC-based user interface. By simply using a mouse, rather than with buttons on the unit itself, users can choose to output the entire screen or a region-of-interest of any size. Additional features such as a flicker reduction filter, an underscan mode, customizable presets with user-assignable hotkeys, password protection, and a stand-alone mode ensure optimal flexibility for many different applications, provide additional value. In applications where the DVI signal is not coming from a computer, but from a camera or medical device for example, Matrox Convert DVI can operate independently of a PC to deliver SDI and analog video.

This quite possible could be the best value Scan converter and Genlock available today!