Mr. Manager
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Hi friends,
Looking for a cost-effective way to upgrade this old system. There is currently a system that takes an analog camera signal, encodes it to channel 3 (analog) and sends it down coax cable to a few different TVs. The TVs have all been upgraded recently enough that they have HDMI inputs. My thought is to try to use an SDI camera and send the signal trying to use the existing cable, and convert from SDI to HDMI at each monitor. I know RG9 is the preferred cable, but have read that it can work over RG59, and since this is only for back of house monitoring, I'm not too worried about making this perfect. Any thoughts? Equipment suggestions for an inexpensive camera, etc?
Looking for a cost-effective way to upgrade this old system. There is currently a system that takes an analog camera signal, encodes it to channel 3 (analog) and sends it down coax cable to a few different TVs. The TVs have all been upgraded recently enough that they have HDMI inputs. My thought is to try to use an SDI camera and send the signal trying to use the existing cable, and convert from SDI to HDMI at each monitor. I know RG9 is the preferred cable, but have read that it can work over RG59, and since this is only for back of house monitoring, I'm not too worried about making this perfect. Any thoughts? Equipment suggestions for an inexpensive camera, etc?