Production Switchers

A Carbonite Black customer found that the FSFC (Frame Sync Format Convertor) function is locked to the first six inputs in Cab-Blk, but the FSFC of the Carbonite is free to assign to any inputs.

They are very disappointed about this changes. They lost flexibility to assign input sources. The most important point is the last generation hardware can provide this flexibility. As a rental production house, they are appreciated on this flexibility on old Carbonite.

Could you let me know why Ross do this change? Is it a hardware design or software design? If it is controlled by software, that will be easier to be changed by factory on next release. If it is hardware level limitation, that will make hesitation to the customer for future expansion.

To make everything fit in the FPGA that was a choice that had to be made to make them fixed to inputs instead of floating.

Carbonite Black Plus has one on every single input including in 3G mode. Also it has 3 additional MV and also Output conversion on 12 outputs with colour correction on them as well.

For a rental system they may want to consider the Black Plus in the future.
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