Do I need black burst / house sync?

Hi
I'm wondering if I need to install house sync at work. The use of it seems near universal when working on Avid however most FCP places that I've worked at seem not to bother. Is there a reason for this?
I'm working at a small post house with 3 edit suites hooked up to a rack that contains our storage, digi beta and beta decks, plus a few additional bits of kit. The edit suites have either Mac Pros or Dual Core G5s in them, with Kona 3 cards.
What issues might arise through lack of house sync that I might, in my ignorance, have been attributing to other things.
Any advice appreciated
Dual 1.8 Power PC G5, MacBook Pro 2.33ghz Intel Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   ATI Radeon X800 XT graphics card, 23inch Cinema Display

House sync is one of those things that you can get along without 9 times out of 10, but that day will come when you'll wish you had it. It's the single most important invisible item in your small facility shopping list. Get one, you'll be very very glad you did.
A recent example: I did a job recently with a small prod co. with an FCP system who rented a Digibeta for layoff. We had done the same to load, via the Decklink Mulitbridge card - all was well with that. At layoff time, everything was perfect with the video, but the audio was noisy, crackly, sounded overmodulated. We changed everything - cables, settings, switched from embedded SDI to AES/EBU, the works. Striped tapes with internal generators, restriped from FCP, it all sounded bad, we wasted two hours. Until we added a small black burst generator to the card and the deck. Then, all worked perfectly. I wouldn't have suspected sync being the issue for that problem.

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