[8.4 x 5.9 x 3"] Had to send HD-sdi to some older displays in our balcony that are fed from 5-bnc. Had to cycle through the resolutions to find the best one, but it works great, and we were able to take out an old scaler that was messing with the image!!

[8.4 x 5.9 x 3"] I bought this for a church. Our services are considered mission critical. Our live stream is very important to us, we don't want to have any down time or lack of quality. That is why we bought this product. We have used datavideo before and they have lasted us a long time.


A few things to know:
1. The power adaptor cable is not the most robust. It does have a screw on type connector, but it isn't the strongest. I accidentally dropped the unit and bent the power connected where it screws onto the device. I tried to bend it back in place and it broke off completely. Not cool. Luckily I have some other datavideo equipment around and was able to connect another power supply while a new one comes in the mail.


2. The device has male mini XLR connectors. If you're from the audio world (like me) you know this is backwards. You can easily find male mini XLR to female XLR. But it is harder to find the opposite. What it doesn't say on this website (BHphoto), is what's in the box. Funny, it doesn't even say on the datavideo website. When I ordered the product I ordered separate cables too. BUT, I didn't need to. In the box with the datavideo product they give you two mini XLR female to XLR female cables. How nice of them! But I wish I woulda known.


3. When you connect audio to this device it will show you nothing. No signs of life. It has audio meters, but nothing will appear. I was frustrated, knowing I was sending audio but not seeing the meter move. Finally I thought, let me connect the SDI cable. Still nothing. Then I turned on my switcher. Nothing. Then I turned on the camera and made sure I was sending a signal. When the device saw the signal it turned on and showed me audio levels.
Lesson: Send a signal over SDI so the device turns on and you can see and test audio meters.


A little more info would have been nice, but we got it working.


It is a sturdy little device. I hope it lasts me a long time.

[8.4 x 5.9 x 3"] I also use this to scale VGA up to 1080 and the image is shockingly good. I followed the instructions to set the dip switches, plugged it in and was up and running instantly. Super easy, great image, and worth every penny

[Aluminum Alloy] I've not had any issues with this product - it does its job well with no fuss. It's also very well made, including the connectors. I was unsure if it would totally strip the audio from the SDI feed (so that there was no audio on the looped output) but this is not the case. The output is 'untouched' and includes audio.

[1.65 lb] Awesome converter. The Swiss Army Knife of converters! Takes anything in, spits anything out. Love it!

[8.4 x 5.9 x 3"] throw whatever you want at this box, it will likely fix your conversion headaches without having to go to a Teranex AV or something similar.

[1.65 lb] Love these things. We have 4 of them and we use them as converters, signal extenders and signal splitters. They are so handy to have and have never failed us. The dip switches can be a little hard to get at because they are recessed so much but other than that I love the DAC70.

[Aluminum Alloy] This is the perfect complement to a video switch that doesn't do audio. We recently went from Black Magic to Ross and needed an audio embedder and this one is perfect! It has meters built in for you can see how much audio you are inputting.

[Aluminum Alloy] If you have the occasion to need to convert SDI or SDI-HD to VGA then buy this unit. It does what it's suppose to do and it does it extraordinarily well. This is pure video excellence. I realize this is now more of an odd piece but when the need arises choose a DAC-60.

[Aluminum Alloy] The dac-9 is perfect for converting the hdmi to sdi from my camera. I use it to record the service at church.