TriCaster Studio Price Cut

As of Monday NewTek was no longer accepting orders for the TriCaster Pro - surprise! The good news is that the TriCaster Studio's list price will be reduced to $8995 as of September 6th. The educational price will be reduced to an amazing $4995.

If you purchased a Pro or Studio after August 1st contact us about special offers from NewTek.

Pre-release TCXD850 used for ESPN X-Games production

The X-Games 16 Los Angeles production team used several TriCaster TCXD850s to produce extensive coverage of events for display on large screens throughout the venue. Their reviews are positive.

“With each update to the TriCaster, we see features and benefits that we suggested,” she says. “It is great to give feedback and then see that taken seriously in the product-development process. In some ways, the XD850 feels like a custom X Games model, since it has almost everything our engineers and operators have asked for.”

Read the whole story over at SVG

TriCaster TCXD850 Update

NewTek missed the scheduled release date of July 15th but looks like we are on the verge of customer units shipping. Early production units are currently shipping as demo units to dealers (Digital Arts should have one very soon) and shipments to end users should commence in a matter of weeks.

The TCXD850 will ship with lots of new features beyond what was demoed at NAB take a look at this for more detail see the Feature Update PDF. But some highlights:

• Frame Buffers for virtual inputs and overlay channels. Now each of these sources can have their own still store/titler. This effectively adds ten still/titling modules to the existing sources independent of the media players.
• The 'video output formerly known as Video Output 3' has been renamed AUX, can now be freely assigned to Program Out, Program without overlays, preview row, effects row any fra,e buffer or any camera input.
• Optional Aux output recording
• Alpha Channel Input support
• Livematte 3.0 with independent crop
• Native 1080P support
• More

New Tally Light for TriCaster TCXD300

metaSETZ has announced their new TL-XD tally light for use with the TriCaster TCXD300. The TL-XDs connect to the TriCasters tally ports and provide both program and preview tally indicators for the camera operator and an ultra-bright LED tally for the on-camera talent.


The TL-XD lights are also compatible with the TLC-6 tally controller for the Standard Def TriCasters. For more details see the metaSETZ website or Digital Arts.

VT Customer Appreciation Program

On September 6 NewTek is going to launch the VT Customer Appreciation Program a special "Thank You" to the loyal VT user base. The deal is for up to $10,000 trade in value towards a TriCaster TCXD850!

• Registered VT[5] owners will qualify for a $10,000 trade in credit
• Registered VT[4] owners qualify for a $7000 trade-in credit
• Registered VT[3] or earlier owners will qualify for a $5,000 trade-in credit 

To be eligible for the program  your VT must of been registered prior to April 11, 2010.

Eligible owners will be able to download a voucher from the NewTek registration web site. fill it out and bring it to Digital Arts. NewTek will issue an RMA for the VT card when he order is received but you don't have to turn it in until the TCXD850 is delivered.

This is probably the best trade-in deal ever.

In case you haven't heard TriCaster TCXD850 is designed to meet the most demanding HD production requirements. This 22-channel HD/SD live production switcher comes in a rack mount form factor, with redundant power and removable storage; eight external sources, eight virtual/mix channels; new live HD virtual sets and advanced matte generation; overlay with rotation, positioning and scaling in 3D plus animated effects; HD live streaming; increased media player capabilities, and multi-view monitoring of all inputs and outputs.

TriCaster 100 To Be Discontinued

NewTek announced that the original TriCaster (TC100) is being discontinued effective August 6 or while supplies last. They say remaining stock is limited so if you were looking at a TC100 act quickly.

For the educational market NewTek is lowering the educational list price of the TriCaster Pro to $4995. The commercial list price of the TC-Pro remains $7995.

Live TriCaster TCXD850 Web Demo

NewTek is hosting a live product demonstration Thursday July 15 at 3:00 PM Eastern. This is your chance to see the new HD TriCaster in action. Go to NewTekTV to register for the event.

Digital Arts should have a demo unit soon so call us at 1-800-692-6442 and we can arrange a personal demo either in person or via the web.

The TriCaster TCXD850 demo recorded at NAB: