Bluefish444 Introduces New Range of SD OEM Developer Video Cards

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Applications include video servers, encoding, decoding & streaming of MPEG-2
and H.264, live and non-live CG

Bluefish444 has announced a new series of extremely powerful and cost effective multi channel SD SDI uncompressed video cards, supporting Windows XP, Windows 2000 Pro, Linux, and Mac operating systems.

In all, five new SD SDI video cards are available to Bluefish444 OEM developers. They are the SD Dual Link Pro, SD Ingest Pro, SD Lite Pro, Iridium AV Pro, and SD Single Link Pro. The new video cards are both cost and space effective for applications such as video servers, encoding, decoding and streaming of MPEG-2 and H.264, live and non-live CG, and many others.

The new series of SD SDI OEM developer video cards will include:

* Dual channel SDI I/O which can be fully independent
* Analog I/O
* 16 channels of embedded audio on each SDI I/O
* VBI data can be handled for input, modification, output, and capture
* HANC I/O
* Full 608 line processing
* Support for V210, ARGB, BGRA, RGB, ABGR, 2VUY and YUVS pixel formats
* Support for QuickTime, Cineon, DPX, AVI, Targa and Tiff file formats
* Two on-board hardware keyers, one for each output
* Two general purpose input ports
* LTC input port, and RS422 serial ports
* Audio sample rate converters
* By-pass relays
* Bi-level sync genlock
* All Video I/O are via BNC connectors
* All cards are fully RoHS compliant
* 64MB memory and PCI 32 bit 33/66 MHz for all PCI and PCI X 64/32 bit slots

The new product range will replace over time Bluefish444's current line of SD OEM products. Significantly more powerful and more cost effective than their predecessors, the new OEM developer SD SDI video cards support the Windows Direct Show, Windows, and Linux C++ APIs as well as Mac OS X. Any existing OEM application can be re-complied using the new SDK, making it compatible with the new range of cards and reducing development time.

Bluefish444 will continue to supply and support OEM developers who are using a predecessor SD SDI video card, helping them minimize development time when transitioning to the new more powerful OEM replacement SD SDI video card.

Jonathan Fall, OEM Manager of Bluefish444 Europe Ltd, says, "Bluefish444 has developed an extensive OEM developer network over the past six years. We design video cards that are flexible and adaptable enough to meet each individual customer's needs in a variety of markets. The new range of SD SDI OEM developer cards contain all the necessary features and benefits required by any developer using the highest quality video I/O for many OEM applications in the broadcast and feature film arenas."

SD Dual Link Pro, SD Ingest Pro, SD Lite Pro, Iridium AV Pro and SD Single Link Pro will be available in the 4th quarter of 2006 from Bluefish444 worldwide.

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