Hey Ryan, good talking with you off line the other day. I checked with B&H today and they said the AJA unit should make my Marshall 70p work for both my EX1 and my Canon 5dM2. Whipping out the credit card now - we'll see how this goes :)

cheers

Nice! I was sure it was going to work from the 5D to the 70P, but my question was about how to power the AJA since it doesn't come with a power supply included. How is it powered if you don't buy their power supply?

Ryan, the Ikan VX9 and VX7 both support HDSDI and HDMI among other sources.

I'm waiting for more user reviews on the new Ikans as the old Ikans were pretty poor substitutes for high end monitoring.

That's what I'd heard as well - and I got an e-mail from Ikan about their new offerings being unveiled at NAB. That said, SmallHD sent a similar e-mail about their new 5.6" (if I recall) LCD under one pound, and it has HDMI (as it's built primarily for DSLR video work) and an option for SDI. I had a problem with a battery from SmallHD and those guys not only took care of that problem quickly and with very little hassle on my end, but they're doing right by their existing customers and throwing us a bone for the trouble. THAT goes a really long way in my view (excuse the terrible pun) so I will be looking at their new LCD offering... can't wait to see pricing next week.

If SmallHD offers a 7-9 inch with HDSDI and HDMI I would place my order today, I'd be willing to pay $1300 for something like that due to SmallHD's great reputation and warranty. I really want to avoid the Ikan due to their history and lack of user reviews.

SmallHD, if you are reading this it would be cool if you intergrated the HDSDI in to Component out conversion too, since the Ikan does it. This way I can use the SmallHD as a DP monitor and cross convert the HDSDI to component and use my DELL 2408 as a 24" client monitor.