Now the new MacBook Pro, Blackmagic card or Kona Card coupled with this
http://www.mobl.com/expansion/products/expresscard_expansion/index.html and appropriate harddrive/raid would make a somewhat portable HD-SDI capture solution; Yes?
Merci for the tip. Will it work with the Cineform RAW coupled to a laptop, M. David Newman?

AFAIK the Kona/Blackmagic cards require either PCI-X or PCI-Express (PCIe) in order to capture/output HD video. The device mentioned above only supports regular PCI (32-bit 33MHz) cards, so it won't work. :(

Expresscard slots use a PCIe x1 connection (in a smaller form factor), so in theory it could support uncompressed HD if an HDSDI Expresscard or a Expresscard-PCIe slot adapter were available... but to my knowledge there aren't any yet.

I also found this but for HDMI access:

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/techspecs/

Any possible professional application, for example, coupled with the new Sony's handheld?

Note: It seems such card doesn't feature any 1080p mode, only 1080 interlaced.

*Edit*

Back to the firewire possibility?

Apart HD-SDI (uncompressed or not, it isn't the point) as well HDV capture, is there any other way to record or capture 1080/24p or 25p footage, let's say DVCPROHD or JPEG2000 or Cineform RAW (less than 400Mbps) via firewire to a laptop? Timecode and audio embedded? (Aside the Canon's 24f or 25f and the 25 Mbps?)

Hi Jay,

Thanks for the info..

One of my jobs is about two minutes from the North End so maybe we
can shoot something some day. If I buy the Viper instead we can have a
shoot-out with it and your A1.

winner buys the beer...

AFAIK the Kona/Blackmagic cards require either PCI-X or PCI-Express (PCIe) in order to capture/output HD video. The device mentioned above only supports regular PCI (32-bit 33MHz) cards, so it won't work. :(

Expresscard slots use a PCIe x1 connection (in a smaller form factor), so in theory it could support uncompressed HD if an HDSDI Expresscard or a Expresscard-PCIe slot adapter were available... but to my knowledge there aren't any yet.http://www.mobl.com/expansion/products/pcie_expansion/index.html

And from there?