SWIT Joins NDI® Advanced SDK Developers Program. Launches 21.5 & 23.8-inch Professional Monitors with NDI
August 31, 2021 by Mark Gederman
Nanjing, China – August 30th, 2020 – SWIT Electronics, the broadcast monitor manufacturer, today announced the launch of professional NDI® monitors based on the latest NDI® 5 SDK. These all-new displays support high bandwidth NDI sources and deliver broadcast quality color performance and a variety of monitoring tools for video production reference.
There are 2 sizes of LCD panels available at launch: the 21.5-inch BM-215-NDI display and 23.8-inch BM-245-NDI display. Both displays are 1920 x 1080 FHD LCDs with 400nits LED backlight, H/V 178° full view angle, and wide color gamut of 100% DCI-P3 coverage for professional productions.
The monitors include an RJ45 port for high bandwidth NDI support up to 4K 2160p and lossless audio codec. In addition, the monitors support 3G-SDI input & loop out, 4K-HDMI 2.0 input, and NDI source decoded to 3G-SDI output. NDI, SDI and HDMI sources can be PIP or PBP displayed simultaneously.
All NDI sources are auto detected when the monitor is connected to an NDI network, and you can quickly select NDI sources from a list within the monitor menu. The monitors also support NDI discover server to pull NDI sources from different IP segments, and support NDI low bandwidth mode as well.
Professional video tools supported include waveforms, vector scopes, color gamut pattern, NDI audio meters, tally signals display, false color, blue only, focus assist, zebra stripes, scale markers, user 3DLUTs upload, and USB directly connected to X-rite i1 or Jeti Specbos 1211 probes to automatically calibrate the monitors.
“NDI® is a broadcast class high quality IP video source, and it’s quite necessary to update your NDI® workflow with professional NDI® monitors, to ensure video quality and accurate color display,” said Neal Ni, CMO of SWIT Electronics, “The 100% DCI-P3 panel, rich video tools and convenient NDI® source discover and selection will insure professional productions.”
Michael Namatinia, President & GM of NDI, stated “As the NDI ecosystem continues to grow, we are adding more products that have been developed to be native to NDI. We are excited to add SWIT’s monitors to the NDI family taking the NDI revolution one step further by creating a Glass-to-Glass workflow for our end users.”
For more information on NDI®, visit www.ndi.tv
For more information about SWIT Electronics, visit www.swit.cc
About SWIT
SWIT Electronics Co., Ltd. was founded in 1996, specialized in developing and manufacturing broadcast and film industry products, including 4K/HDR camera-top and studio monitors, 5GHz wireless video transmitters and converters, Pro-camera batteries, chargers and power solutions, field and studio LED lightings. SWIT headquarters locate in Nanjing, China, and has sub-companies in Dusseldorf, Germany and in Santa Clara, California. The distribution network covers more than 100 countries and regions all around the world.
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Email: contact@swit.cc, info@swit.us, info@swit-europe.com
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About NDI®:
NDI® (Network Device Interface technology), is a royalty-free standard enabling IP video workflows across standard Ethernet networks, which advances our customer’s software-drive IP workflows.
It allows video and audio sources to be shared bi-directionally across a network, eliminating the need for costly direct connections, expensive cable runs, and infrastructure upgrades while turning every source into a destination instantly available anywhere on the network - enabling our mission of “moving video, moving the world”.
NDI® is in the hands of millions of customers using applications and devices that are NDI®-enabled and has been adopted by more media organizations than any other IP standard, therefore creating the industry’s largest IP ecosystem of products and the rapidly expanding number of companies enabling IP-based customer workflows. https://ndi.tv/
About the Vizrt Group:
Vizrt Group® runs under the passionately held single, simple purpose of “more stories, better told”, supplying media content creators around the world with software-defined visual storytelling tools to help them to build a better-informed world. The Group contains three of the strongest names in the broadcast technology industry; NewTek, NDI® and Vizrt. All three being creative businesses, built on innovation and grown by our people, with the goal of becoming the most recommended solution provider in the markets we serve. We combine our strategic pillars of Content-Centricity, Software-Defined, IP First, and Innovation to increase our customers’ success in delivering engaging and immersive content to their audiences. Vizrt Group is a global and diverse organization with over 600 employees from 58 different nationalities, with offices in 16 countries worldwide. It is privately-owned by Nordic Capital Fund VIII. www.vizrtgroup.com
