Tablet device with HDMI input

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SantaCruzMichael

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A friend of mine is at CES posting updates on new tablet devices, but I'm still not seeing one with a video INPUT.

I know this feature has limited mass-market appeal, but I'd love to have a tablet with a beautiful HD lcd that I could use as a location monitor, but which could also do all the things that an iPad does on the days when I'm not shooting.

If anyone comes across such a device, please post a link in this thread!

_Michael
 
Toshiba is getting ready to introduce an iPad competitor with HDMI input. Unknown whether you can stream real time to it. If you can, the external monitor makers should be thinking price drop.

Grant
 
Thanks for the tip and please link to the Toshiba product when it is out. I too am watching all of these tablets thinking "if they just added live HDMI input..."
 
I think tablets with HDMI will become obsolete very soon.

The next thing is being able to stream what's on your tablet to your television with no wires through a tablet app and an interface like http://boxee.tv and Apple TV and others. It looks promising.

You can do this now with an iphone or iPad and an AppleTV ($99).

I think you can also do this with the Boxee app and the Boxee interface ($199) The boxee app turns your smartphone into the remote. The site says you can also download the boxee software on any pc and use that as interface.
 
Omar,

Thus far, I am not aware of any tablets that even have HDMI input, so they aren't obsolete yet. Do you know of any that do have HDMI input???

Not sure if you understand what many of us are after. If a tablet had zero latency HDMI input, it could replace the expensive on cam HD monitors. Since the tablet is in essence a small computer, it could also be used for a bunch of other tasks around a shoot.

Grant
 
Ahhh! I see. Right. That would be amazing.

Not sure if it works right but supposedly Samsung Galaxy supports HDMI with microUSB to HDMI cable.

There are many android tablets coming out tis year with HDMI that were displayed at CES.

I wonder if these will work bringing video IN through HDMI which is what we're after
 
please someone keep updating this thread soon after CES is over ok.. I am searching the same thing too!!!
 
Just wondering, if some tablets this year get HDMI-in, are they powerful enough to record video to their drives?
 
It is not the processor so much as the storage, or lack of storage. I would never want to record anything I am being payed for on a non-video centric based system. Too many risks.

Just for monitoring would be fine for me.
 
If they get HDMI surely they will have USB. If storage is the only issue... a cheap portable external would solve that problem real fast? Many people said they don't want to take DSLR's into a professional environment because they are "not made for video"... however they seem to be making a significant impact despite not being intended soley for video productions. What about dumping footage on location... it doesnt take much processor speed to connect a card adapter and a hard drive and let the two tango. I for one would be all for using a tablet to monitor and dump footage to while on location. Didn't Fujitsu make tablets back in 07 with PCMCIA slots?
 
I would like to see HDMI in on my Droid, it had 480 horizontal resolution- so it would serve perfectly as external monitor.
 
DCTBradJohnson said:
If they get HDMI surely they will have USB. If storage is the only issue... a cheap portable external would solve that problem real fast? Many people said they don't want to take DSLR's into a professional environment because they are "not made for video"... however they seem to be making a significant impact despite not being intended soley for video productions. What about dumping footage on location... it doesnt take much processor speed to connect a card adapter and a hard drive and let the two tango. I for one would be all for using a tablet to monitor and dump footage to while on location. Didn't Fujitsu make tablets back in 07 with PCMCIA slots?
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If that was the case, still record to the tablet and then dump when full to the usb drive. The solid state tablet would be faster/beter to record to. But this is all speculation untill we see a unit that is capable of recording
 
Recording video takes dedicated processors, a very fast hard drive, etc. There is a reason why a Red weighs 10 pounds bare, and a reason why a Nanoflash costs $3000.
 
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