New decimatir

Decimator has a new product coming out for $99. Nice!!!

Yeah they announced at Nab, but I've been waiting and waiting for BH to get some in. Did you find somewhere that has them?? Would love to buy 3 in the next couple of weeks


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April 21st 2017
New MD-LX HDMI / SDI Bi-Directional Converter
MSRP US$99
(ETA 2017Q3) So not yet it seems..

I'm also unclear if they up/down/cross convert which is the real strength of the decimator imo

No this cheaper version only does hdmi to sdi and sdi to hdmi at the same time. There is no scaler inside!!
This unit is just build to have a way more cheaper unit to do simple hardware conversion. Just to have a cheap alternative to the Chinese converters that are flooding the Market.
If you need conversion MD-HX is your cheapest alternative!

Not the most reliable, caused an occasional flicker on screen.

For me, the real value is in converting 3G SDI Level B to Level A or vice-versa.

Not the most reliable, caused an occasional flicker on screen.

Have not have issues yet with them. Flikkering is often caused by errors in the signal. These errors can occuer with a too long cable or bad cable. So could be a lot of Things

We also have them and no issues @1080p50 so far!

Hi all,


Im new to the forum and new to the video side of our business and I am looking at ways of linking several TVs together for small conference work.

I have seen the Decimator MD-LX but been recommended to stick to the blackmagic Micro.

Any advice please?

Will get i get any delay in the image by say going from a macbook pro / laptop to a either a MD-LX or a Micro-converter, and then SDI to where my screens are and then either loop through by sticking either an MD-LX or Micro- convertor on each TV/Display?

Will the last TV get a huge delay (as in delay each monitor i connect and when I get to the last one its very bad??)

Someone recommended sticking a 1:8 SDI 4K Distribution to the middle of the TVs and then go to each one from there - will stop the delay ?

I do have the budget to get the larger SDI to HDMI 4K Converters (and HDMI to SDI 4K) also, but not sure if I will need this for just linking TVs?

Any help will be really appreciated - thanks all.