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I think one of the intended uses of the Teranex Mini SDI to HDMI is to allow monitoring of SDI video signals on relatively inexpensive HDMI monitors or TVs. There are quite a few 4K monitors and TVs with HDMI inputs that can be useful for monitoring purposes. And in this case it may be useful to be able to apply a color correction LUT for more accurate monitoring.
In contrast there are far fewer 4K monitors with SDI inputs and they tend to be more expensive (even the HD monitors with SDI inputs can get kind of pricey). And the higher end production reference monitors often have fairly extensive built in color controls and in some cases LUT support as well.
Now some people have expressed an interest in using a Teranex Mini for other purposes, such as color correction for live video sources going into a video switcher, for example. And in that case it might be useful to have the LUT functionality on the Teranex HDMI to SDI converter.
I'm not sure if there is a technical limitation of the hardware which prevents this, or if it's just a feature that Blackmagic didn't consider or didn't think people would find that useful on the HDMI to SDI units.