NEWS: VizRT Buys NewTek in One of the Biggest Disruptive Moves For Decades1 min read
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Depending on your role in the industry, you’ll know one or other of these two companies. You probably won’t know both of them equally, because they come from kind-of diametrically opposite sectors. But there’s absolutely no doubt that they were converging conceptually, and now they have, completely, physically.
NewTek, from San Antonio in Texas, is famous for extracting real-time video performance from early microcomputers like the Commodore Amiga. The Video Toaster could do Quantel-like things with video but actually cost only a few thousand dollars. In many ways, it was the first glimpse at a paradigm that we’re so familiar with now: real-time video processing on commodity IT devices.
Today the company is riding another wave of innovation and recognition because of NDI, a complete network environment for real-time production. It’s the first video over IP system that is easy to use out of the box, and which already has hundreds of partners.
Image credit: Vizrt and NewTek
