Recommend a capture card for uncompressed 8-bit over SDI?

I've got a number of digibeta tapes that need to end up as 720x486 Apple 8-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed quicktimes. Is it possible to find a card that can capture natively to this format? It seems like the blackmagic and Aja cards use their own flavor of 8-bit uncompressed. I want to be able to use/view these files on any system that has quicktime, without having to install any additional codecs. Am I right in thinking that Apple's own version of 8-bit uncompressed is included with any quicktime install? Any way to capture right to this format, rather than capture to another uncompressed flavor and export?
-f

Sure, there's several in fact. AJA, and Decklink make the units you need. My favorite would be the AJA LHi card if you have no need for 2k conversions.
www.aja.com
Jerry

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