Variosystems Takes Osprey Hardware to the Next Level

2014-05-06

 

ViewCast might not be around anymore, but its highly valued products live on, thanks to Swiss company Variosystems. At the 2014 NAB conference, video professionals got a chance to talk to the people at Variosystems and hear what's next for the Osprey lineup.

 

"ViewCast had a financial trouble and we knew there was a great product with the Osprey line and it’s been a good reliable product for more than 20 years," explained Roger Bieri, deputy general manager at Variosystems. "So when all that happened, Variosystems decided to take on the challenge and keep the future going with Osprey." In an interview, Jeremy Gerdes, business unit manager at Osprey, showed some of Osprey's new hardware, and explained that the company's large engineering group will be bringing more products to market faster.

 

"This is the Osprey 800a audio add-on card. This is a little different than all the other cards we have on display here as this is actually an add-on, which itself needs to connect to an Osprey 800-series card such as the Osprey 845e that we have sitting here," Bieri demonstrated. "It adds four additional inputs of audio, two of which will always be balanced audio, and the additional two can be selectable between unbalanced AES/EBU and SPDIF."