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Hello,

I have to buy a frame for only one card. Not the best investment
BMD has still not offer new card...

Can some frame users point to interesting cards/functions that I may include in the bargain ?

BMD abbandoned the OpenGear setup years ago.. Did not sell well.. But costs money every year for the OpenGear license..

I can easely understand it, as buyer also pay !

if there was an alternative, I also drop opengear system. But you already noted that new firmware for constellation is long in coming

The idea is to have more then one card in the frame. I think for exemple of a 12G to 6G converter (like decimator)...

there is a 2 card opengear frame, which costs about the same price as a full size 2U frame

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ ... osure.html

Not a change on the cost, but small size and may be less noise (interesting in van)...

But heavy price for constellation audio workaround

Videobegin wrote:Not a change on the cost, but small size and may be less noise (interesting in van)...

But heavy price for constellation audio workaround

Small size is smaller fans, equals smaller bearings and less flow so more RPM.. Often the smaller the fans the more noise they make.. Bigger Fans will displace more air, run slower and therefore make a whole lot less noise

checkout AJA OG cards :

https://www.aja.com/family/opengear

The opengear.tv site aggregates over 200 modules from multiple vendors.

Good Luck