2024 Highlights – Sandy Audio Visual

In the past few weeks, we’ve been reflecting on what an incredible year we had in 2024. As we roll into spring, we wanted to emphasize our THANKS. Yes, THANK YOU. We are fully aware that we wouldn’t be here without your support. From business referrals to clients procuring new services, every single connection has […]

Blackmagic Design to Introduce New Routers?

Video routers have been a shining star in the revenue bottom lines of manufacturers. Ross Video, with their excellent Ultrix line of routers, has seen revenue for that product rival that of their switching consoles. Undoubtedly, competition from Grass Valley, Sony, ForA, NewTek, Roland, Blackmagic Design and a host of other hardware and software based […]

Interesting Developments Surrounding ISE and Digital AV

Alternatives to the uncompressed SMPTE 2110 IP-based video standard are taking a prominent foothold in the industry.  The SMPTE 2110 standard, which requires at minimum at 10Gbps network also comes with the requisite cost of procuring, building, and maintaining a “10G” network.  Industry participants who don’t require the uncompressed signal 2110 offers, yet still need […]

Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Pro HD

The newly announced Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Pro HP borrows heavily from the design of the new Davinci Resolve control surfaces, and it’s a beautiful thing. Check out the new switcher on BMD’s website here: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemtelevisionstudiohd.

Osprey Video Talon G1 is a solid entry into the encoding market

The Osprey Video Talon G1 is a solid entry into the encoding market.  The future of the generable Osprey line of video capture cards has been in flux for some time but the new company, now going by the product name, has served up several new products and their engineers are committed to bringing new innovative […]

NewTek Announces New IP Switcher

So we’ve been asking ourselves around here – what would NewTek do if they didn’t have to worry about legacy connections? Could they make their form factor smaller? Provide for more channel inputs? Looks like the answer is a resounding “yes”. http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=113157

NAB Show 2016 – Where is the industry heading?

Another Spring and the world’s content creators and creative device manufacturers gather in Las Vegas for the biggest annual spectacle of its kind.  The exhibit floor opens tomorrow and I have a few predictions.  I’m joined again this year by StudioTech.TV, who’ll be providing coverage of the show as well.  My focus will be very […]

PageMonitor come VisualPing Loses Its Way

Greed it good. But only if your greed is backed up by a stellar product people want. PageMonitor, the handy browser plugin that allowed you to get instant notification when a webpage changed its content, has been replaced by VisualPing. It’s a clumsy attempt to increase monetization of the plugin, which is fine. I like […]

Livestream.com gets new CEO

Mr. Max Hoat has passed on the Chief Executive role at Brooklyn based Livestream.com to Jesse Hertzberg. Hoat, co-founder of the company has been successful in making Livestream a top tier player in the live production, content delivery, and video hardware space. http://blog.livestream.com/blog/2015/5/6/introducing-our-new-ceo