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Pro stuff gives a glimpse of if we lived in a perfect world, SDI (and HD-SDI) would have been the de facto standard for video everywhere.

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It's almost like including a BNC automatically rules it out of use as a consumer like there's some ridiculous royalty payment owed or something. I love BNC over every other type of connection for a coax cable. Nothing in the consumer world makes as sure of a connection.

Before entering the pro A/V industry I used to equate BNC with "ewww, old as dirt."

I then came to love the simplicity and reliability of SDI. Nowadays I work in uncompressed ST2110, and while there are many advantages of network based video and audio, paying $1,000 for a QSFP to handle just a few streams is a hard pill to swallow!

BNC == featureComplete

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