BirdDog Welcomes Two New Products and NDI® 5 Support Across All Hardware Products
By Jamie G
BirdDog announced exciting news last week regarding NewTek’s NDI® 5 announcement. In addition to NDI® 5 support across all their existing products, including their Flex Family, 4K Family, Studio NDI, Mini, and all PTZ Camera models, they announced BridDog PLAY and Cloud Connect. These two new product lines came at a huge surprise to the industry and Broadfield is excited for the launch.
According to InBroadcast.com BirdDog PLAY is a revolutionary, low cost, NDI® Player that can display any local NDI® source on the network, as well as tie into BirdDog Cloud Connect to bring remote sources to PLAY from anywhere in the world. Important features include
- $149 USD MSRP!
- NDI® 5 support – NDI, NDI HX2, NDI Remote, NDI Bridge
- Play any NDI source on the network
- Super tiny – just 85x85x19mm and only 97 grams
- Beautiful and intuitive interface
- Use with BirdDog Cloud Connect player to play NDI sources from anywhere in the world
BirdDog Cloud Connect
Cloud Connect builds on NDI® 5 and the current generation of BirdDog Cloud to allow fully flexible and instantaneous access to any of your video sources anywhere in the world. Cloud Connect is an application suite that is available for the following platforms:
- iPhone
- iPadOS
- tvOS (AppleTV)
- Android
- Android Tablet
- AndroidTV
- Chromebook
Important features include:
- Insanely fast – as little 2 frames latency from source to screen, accessible anywhere in the world
- Perfect for remote editorial workflows
- Perfect for real-time remote productions mobile – use any device as a real-time monitor from any NDI source anywhere in the world
- Works on Wi-Fi and 4G
- PTZ control from mobile device touchscreen
- Beautiful interface
- Dante and NDI audio support
- Works with any NDI or NDI HX camera including Sony, Panasonic, PTZ Optics, Marshall, NewTek, and many more
Check out InBroadcast’s article going over the exciting announcement here!
Learn more about BirdDog here!