Audinate Group Limited has added hardware brands AJA Video and Marshall Electronics to the join the 30-plus original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) currently licencing Dante AV technology, including AdTechno, AVer, Avonic, Bolin, BZB Gear, Chingan Technology, Cypress, Lumens, Minrray, Patton, PTZ Optics, ProAVIT, Soundhouse, Televic, Telycam, Tenveo, ValueHD, Yamaha and Yuan.
AJA Video, a leading manufacturer of video interface technologies, converters and digital video recording solutions for professional, broadcast and postproduction markets, has introduced two transmitter/receiver converters for transporting low-latency, professional quality Dante video and audio. The Dante AV 4K-T converts 4K, UHD, 2K, HD and VESA SDI and HDMI to Dante AV Ultra signals, while the Dante AV 4K-R supports conversion of Dante AV Ultra signals to 4K, UHD, 2K, HD, VESA SDI and HDMI.
Marshall Electronics, a provider of A/V equipment for broadcast, pro A/V, video streaming and multimedia worldwide, will integrate Audinate’s Dante AV-H to its line of AV-over-IP (H.265/H.264) cameras with up to UHD 60fps resolution.
‘We continue to see excellent demand from OEMs for Dante AV, highlighted by the addition of new partners and products,’ says Audinate Chief Marketing Officer, Joshua Rush. ‘A/V interoperability is a complex issue, and Dante and Dante AV was purpose-built to make it easier for anyone installing and managing A/V equipment to overcome this complexity. It’s motivating to know that we’re helping to make our customers’ lives easier with the arrival of every new Dante AV product to the market.’
Dante AV is a family of hardware and software solutions that allow manufacturers and end-users to add networked video to the Dante platform. It guarantees interoperability between manufacturers while keeping discovery, configuration and control to a single platform for all audio and video devices.
The family includes Dante AV Ultra, a hardware-based solution offering 4K60 video encoding and decoding for high-quality, visually lossless video, and Dante AV-H, an embedded software solution that OEMs can add to their Ethernet-enabled H.264/H.265 cameras, encoders and decoders, turning them into Dante AV endpoints.
