I admit it; I'm a pack rat. Back about a month or so ago I was wondering whether I should try to acquire another TBC (having set stuff up now, I think I'm fine with what I have). Another user on another forum raved about the Snell & Wilcox Kudos series, so I did some searching and found an active eBay auction featuring a Snell & Wilcox CVR600 Kudos Plus standards converter...selling "as-is", which is normally a warning to stay clear. But other similar equipment was running in the several hundreds of dollars and this one had an $85 minimum, so I said, "What the hell."
Shortly thereafter I found another post which said that this item was only good if you were going from PAL to NTSC or vice versa and of no use for everyday capture and video work. After reading that I was hoping someone would outbid me...turns out nobody else wanted it either, so I got it for the $85 minimum.
Now that I have it at the house I see that it powers up, responds properly to the menu and controls, and puts out a nice picture...but only when I go NTSC>>NTSC; I don't have any PAL equipment in the house to check it with. (Although I did get an AIW 8500 up and running yesterday...can that unit accept a PAL input?)
It seems like a nice, well-built piece of gear and, as I said, I'm a pack rat...I'm loath to part with something if I think I can use it in the future. I've downloaded the manual and have started reading through it, but I thought I'd ask for input here...under what circumstances might this unit be an asset?
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