NewTek NDI® version 3 and NewTek NDI® PTZ Camera Garner Best of Show Awards at IBC 2017
By Jim Bask
NewTek is honored that two of our newest products have been recognized with Best of Show Awards at IBC 2017.
NewTek is honored that two of our newest products have been recognized with Best of Show Awards at IBC 2017.
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The NewTek TriCaster TC1 has sports written all over it, featuring 4K, 60p, and built-in instant replay, all designed to give producers the latest and greatest live production tech in a compact package.
For the first time anywhere, NewTek will debut its full end-to-end IP solution at IBC2017 in Amsterdam from September 15-19, 2017 on Stand 7.K11. NewTek will demonstrate the world’s first NDI® PTZ camera with video, audio, PTZ control, tally and power over one standard Ethernet cable. NewTek will also show the Connect Spark portable NDI converters, devices designed to bring SDI or HDMI video signals into a computer or onto an IP network, either wired or wirelessly, and include tally and direct recording.
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NewTek provides several NDI applications for all NDI users at no charge. Some are watermarked trial products, but for this article we will look strictly at those that are fully-functional free applications. These will assist anyproduction workflow that uses products that are NDI-enabled. Such workflows include NewTek IP Series, TriCaster and 3Play, of course, but today there are NDI-enabled video production systems and software from many other manufacturers as well.
The last few years have been an exciting time for the broadcast industry. We’ve seen the rapid development and deployment of IP and COTS-based infrastructures introduce new workflows to streamline operations and reshape how we build facilities.
With all the options and flexibility that IP-based infrastructures enable, additional complexity is also added to the system. On top of existing broadcast standards for transporting video over coax, such as SMPTE 292M, a plethora of emerging standards have been introduced into the marketplace that, although functionally solved a problem, generated large interoperability issues that inhibited growth and mass adoption.
NewTek’s Network Device Interface (NDI) technology for IP video got another boost this week with the announcement of version 3.0, designed to improve the protocol’s performance with PTZ cameras on low-bandwidth networks.
There was a time when going tapeless was a completely unheard of idea, and now it is the industry standard. NewTek believes that its new NDI technology could be just that, and they predict that it will revolutionize video production and storytelling by allowing for an easier and more affordable way to convert HDMI and SDI signals into IP signals.
On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Robert Heron talk with Dr. Andrew Cross, the president and CTO of NewTek (the folks behind the TriCaster). He is the chief architect of the video over IP system: NDI (Network Device Interface). He also shows us their brand new NDI native pan, tilt, zoom camera and And, the Connect Spark box which converts SDI or HDMI signals to WiFi.
NewTek today announced NDI version 3, the third generation of its royalty-free IP video technology. This new version provides numerous advanced features and performance improvements while maintaining full forward and backward compatibility.