SPROLINK introduced a portable video switcher with a built-in 5.5-inch display, a T-bar, and PTZ controls. Ever heard of Sprolink? To be honest, me neither. It’s a Chinese company based in Xiamen, and by the way, it’s pronounced “S-Pro-Link”. On their website it says, they’ve “designed and engineered a wide range of audio and video solutions in the Rental & Staging, Corporate, Broadcast, and Boardroom, etc [field]”. It’s not their first public product in the video world, either. For a company this unheard of, they have a surprisingly large amount of video processors, video switchers, and more. Most of their products so far seem to be professional-grade rack equipment and the NeoLIVE R2 seems to be their attempt to appeal to content-creators. The NeoLIVE R2 is a small portable video switcher with 4 HDMI inputs and 1 HDMI output. All in- and outputs are maxed out at 1080p/60. Even though this doesn’t sound nearly enough due to being so used to having 4K and UHD everywhere, but think of devices like Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Mini series, which are also limited to 1080p. The backports of the NeoLIVE R2. Credit: SPROLINK Audio ports Continuing with the ports on the side, you have two 3.5mm microphone inputs, a headphone jack, and a line out. Right next to the audio ports there’s a LAN port which according to the marketing material is solely for camera control and remote controlling the panel, not for live streaming. For that, you have a USB3.0 port, which presumably...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 9 September, 2021