BirdDog Studio SDI HDMI Interface Review

The best products on the market. Birddog does amazing things, we bought 1 of these and 6 mini birds and they all work amazing.

Such a promising device but like most manufacturers in this space they have failed to materialize themselves. First the pros. It's POE, it has SDI and HDMI inputs and outputs, it has a large dot matrix display that shows both basic information and counts, and the user interface is neat and clean. Cons No WiFi, not compatible with all NDI broadcast software (obviously due to the lack of HX codec), dot matrix display is only indicative although the manufacturer claims the opposite, it doesn't…

The best products on the market. Birddog does amazing things, we bought 1 of these and 6 mini birds and they all work amazing.

bought to convert old SD-SDI sources to NDI for my new Tricaster TC-1 and BirdDog shells to support it but it doesn't . I contacted support and they said it was a typo on the website. Apparently many sites selling BirdDog also omit this as they all state it supports SD or SMPTE-259. On the other hand, it works well for HD

Such a promising device but like most manufacturers in this field they didn't realize it. First the pros. It's POE, it has SDI and HDMI inputs and outputs, it has a large dot matrix display that shows basic information as well as counts, and the user interface is neat and clean. Cons No WiFi, not compatible with all NDI broadcast software (obviously due to the lack of HX codec), dot-matrix display is only indicative, despite manufacturer claims to the contrary, it does not work well with the…