I wasted a lot of time and money trying to get SDI to work on my 598DS. Couldn't manage to get the SDI card and harness I made to work, and had no way of finding out what the problem was.

After I bought my Oppo (another nightmare-wasting time and money, should have gone to CRT) I had my screen set up properly, and the nice chap who did it for me brought along an SDI DVD player to compare against the Oppo. To be honest there was so little difference (if any) for DVDs between the SDI and the Oppo Source Direct into my scaler that I realised I should never have tried to go down the SDI route in the first place.

Just my ha'pennies worth.

Sooloos, Roon, G series (with LPS upgrade), 800 series (with LPS upgrade), HD621, AC200, Prime and PS, DSPs old and new.

Purdeys, Moke, Leica, 'Blad. Only the best.