Datavideo, based in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading manufacturer of professional
broadcast and AV products for live video production. It focuses on innovative
portable solutions as well as cost-effective modular systems that enable
customers to create integrated solutions, tailored to their needs
Datavideo brings high-end product features to customers that require cost-
effective solutions, broadcast-quality performance, and reliability. In a fast-
changing market with ever-increasing demands, Datavideo researches,
develops, designs and manufactures a wide range of innovative products both
in Taiwan and at a facility in Silicon Valley USA, and is an ISO-9001 quality
certified manufacturer.
Clients can therefore invest in the latest technology at affordable prices. With a
global network of distributors, Datavideo delivers full support to resellers, end-
users and integrators.
Datavideo in South Africa
Macro Video Pty Ltd has been the official distributor in southern Africa for more
than 15 years and has intimate knowledge of the product family. Macro Video’s
stand at the biannual MediaTech Africa show is always well-supported with
dealers in attendance to meet clients and show off new equipment. The
distributor often has foreign representation from Datavideo head office as well.
Meet the family
In southern Africa the most loved family member is the “little sister’, Datavideo
SE-500. It is an easy-to-use analogue 4 channel video mixer that is well-liked by
churches throughout Africa due to its ruggedness and ease of use. The SE-500’s
bigger sister is the SE-600, which has six analogue inputs and two PC inputs.
SE-600 is the logical upgrade from SE-500 and is popular with larger churches,
auditoriums, and facilities using composite, which has sufficient quality to
produce DVDs as an end product. Datavideo has bucked the trend to go all-out
digital and its SD family remains firmly rooted in Africa, India, Pakistan, the
Middle East, China, Eastern Europe and Russia.
At the end of the year the Datavideo stork will deliver the SE-500’s HD brother,
called the SE-700. This will be an easy-to-use 4 channel HD mixer in a traditional
stand-alone desktop design with a T bar for wipes and effects with HDMI and
SDI in and outputs. Capable of lumakeying titles and graphics – a feature the
SE-500 does not have, this baby promises to be fat and healthy – feature-wise!
The popular big brother in the family is the MS-2800. It is a complete 8U 19’’ rack
aluminium case complete with mixer/ switcher 8 channel upgradeable to 12,
Comms and Tally, SDI recorder, vector scope multipreview screen and integrated
power distribution centre. OBV-2800 has even more muscles than ouboet! The
two smaller brothers are the HS-2800, being a briefcase styled HD mobile kit
comprising of mixer / switcher, Comms and Tally and integrated multipreview
screen. The HS-600 is an SD briefcase styled version. Both HS’s are toned to the
extreme with their sleek design.
New family members
A new branch in the family tree will be the 2200 range. The SE-2200 will be a
six-channel HD mixer / switcher where the HS-2200 will be the briefcase styled
mixer / switcher with Comms and Tally and integrated multipreview screen.
Other siblings will be a portable harddrive recorder with integrated flip up screen
called HRS-30, and MCU100, the new Sony Camera control unit. Almost without
fanfare, the revolutionary TC-200 has proved popular. Until now CG on the run
was difficult and clumsy requiring a PC with an SDI CARD. TC-200 requires no
PCI card and offers full CG on a laptop with HDMI. This baby includes free CG-
200 (Character Generator Software) that can grow up and use other CG
software packages in the Datavideo family! Compatible with Windows 7 / 8, it
supports DSK function (via HDMI) or SDI overlay function in 1080i 50/59.94/60;
720p 50/59.94/60 and SD video: 576i/480i. See it in action and fall in love with
the simplicity and ease of use.
NVS-20 with H.264 is a one box solution for streaming via a network and works
famously with the rest of the family, whether they be HD or SD, as the unit has
SD/HD-SDI, HDMI and composite as well as analogue audio inputs. Go and see
and be welcomed by the Datavideo family, old and young at IBC 2014: Hall 7,
Stand D.39.
