[rescue] Re: Why .* sucks (was Re: FDDI card)

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:13:46AM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> > Converters are available.  No reason to buy it, but if you wanted to, the
> > converters for serial to parallel and vice versa are like $350 each
> > (http://www.markertek.com/MTStore/product.CFM?BaseItem=SER-100E).  SDI to
> > analog and vice versa and like $300 each (well, low end figure).  But, no 
> > reason to buy those when the Sirius can do the job. 
> 
> i'd prefer to have the sirius do the job, but the chances that i can afford
> the serial digital option might be low.  depends what they cost.

Sell, the converters would need to be used in addition to the Sirius. I
would imagine that this route would be cheaper than the official SDI option
from SGI.  But again, there is no point in doing it if you don't have any
other gear that uses SDI.  Most likely thing to get that uses SDI would be
SDI VCRs, and they are darn expensive, and only of use if you are trying to
exchange tapes with someone else who uses such tapes.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd