Category: News

Blackmagic Design to Introduce New Routers?
April 3, 2023Posted by csandy

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…

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Interesting Developments Surrounding ISE and Digital AV
February 5, 2019Posted by csandy

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…

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Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio Pro HD
April 24, 2017Posted by csandy

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
September 24, 2016Posted by csandy

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…

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NewTek Announces New IP Switcher
September 1, 2016Posted by csandy

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