Streaming Hardware Recommendation

Hello,
I am trying to find out what hardware products will work to stream HD content from an HDMI camera source to my ustream/stickam/livestream account?
I plan on using a laptop as the main encoding station and live streaming straight to stickam/ustream/livestream via FMLE.
The camera can output either 720p or 1080i via HDMI.
I am considering the following products:
1. Matrox MXO2 Mini
2. Matrox MXO2 Mini Max
3. Blackmagic Design H.264 PRO Recorder
4. Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle USB 3.0
Thanks for you help.

Your powerbook and the g5 are probably the only useful things. Starting a streaming webcast company with only this, and no infrastructure, bandwidth, and redundancy does not seem feasible to me.
You can install DSS (darwin streaming server) on OS X and run the powermac g5 as a streaming server, pending the fact that it's in a location within close proximity to the viewers of the content, and that the pipe delivering the content is big enough (your home ADSL line which typically has a maximum upstream data rate of probably around 768k is going to be saturated with a single stream at 768kbps).
The issue here isn't really the technology or hardware it's bandwidth and infrastructure, re-evaluate what you are looking for and then re-consider the feasibility.

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