Blackmagic announces the new Decklink Studio 2 card

This is the first 10-bit low-cost card for SD and HD capable of facilitating the edition with SDI, HDMI, components, S-Video, compound capture and playback, with four balanced audio channels.

Blackmagic Design shows these days in IBC’09 a new capturing card model, the Decklink Studio, designed to replace standard definition cards, increasing analog connectivity as well as SDI/HD-SDI and HDMI connections. Decklink Studio 2 thus replacing the current Decklink Studio model by adding 10 Bit HDMI at a price around 545 euros.

Decklink Studio offers Independent SDI, HDMI connection, analog components, S-Video and compound, so that all types of external video equipment can remain connected without the need to re-describe. Decklink Studio also includes SDI and HDMI connections to change SD and HD, as well as a single SD output that always gives exit by converter even if you are working with HD sources. In this way, this card also becomes a converter at a very small price. The Dowconverter signal can be configured in 16: 9, 16: 9 Anamorphic or 4: 3 format, in any high -definition video format as well as in the capture and reproduction modes. When working with HD video formats, the S-width and video setting video is always available, independent of the video standard used.

Decklink Studio is designed for creative professionals who have many generations of Broadcast equipment, including high audio connectivity for when customers need to use older systems such as Betacam sp. Decklink Studio 2 includes four balanced analog audio channels, as well as two AES/EBU digital audio channels. For digital audio, exit channels 3 and 4 can be switched to AES/EBU for channels 3 and 4, and 5 and 6, thus with six digital audio channels in total. An ideal solution to monitor 5.1 or works with several language tracks.