Industry Reacts to Release of NewTek’s NDI 5
By Adam Noyes
NDI 5 has finally been released, and with it comes a ton of new features and promise of new potential for remote video streamers and producers. NDI 5 can be downloaded for free HERE.
Sportsvideo.org recently posted a great article discussing the industries reaction to NewTek’s NDI 5. We’re taking a look at some highlights from that article below.
Several major technology providers in the professional AV and broadcast industries have reacted with excitement to the NDI 5 announcement. NDI 5 allows anyone to easily share live, high quality, low latency video with anyone else in real time, using billions of devices.
“NDI has always been about the community, from individual visual storytellers to global software houses and manufacturers,” says Michael Namatinia, president, NDI. “I simply cannot wait to see the amazing ways they employ NDI in this AV-over-IP revolution.”
Further indication of excitement behind NDI 5 is highlighted by NDI’s limited time offer of 10,000 free downloads of the NDI ∣ HX Camera app for smartphone users. The 10,000 free downloads were consumed in less than 2 hours on Wednesday following the announcement. NDI later announced that both the iOS and Android NDI ∣ HX Camera app will be 50% off ($9.99) through June 16th, 2021.
Some of the reactions from around the industry:
BirdDog:
“NDI 5 is a steep change in what it can achieve. It allows for more efficient processing and global reach,” says Dan Miall, Co-Founder and CEO of BirdDog. “It also brings to market new types of products. Thanks to the power of NDI 5, we’re able to announce the BirdDog Play device. This is the world’s smallest and lowest cost NDI decoder supporting high bandwidth NDI, NDI|HX, and the new NDI Bridge and NDI Remote protocols. Thanks to the NDI team, we’re really excited about today and into the future.”
PTZOptics:
“We congratulate NDI on another major release,” says Paul Richards, Marketing Director for PTZ Optics. “We’ve been following NDI since its release in 2015. It’s incredible that we are already on version 5 after almost six years of improvement. NDI 5 is coming at a time when there has been more use of video around the world than ever before. The new NDI Bridge and NDI Remote applications are welcomed additions to the NDI toolkit. We can’t wait to see how users and our customers are going to be using these tools not just from their local area networks but from around the world!”