Livestream announces major updates from Vegas trade show

Monday at Las Vegas’s National Association of Broadcasters show, Livestream CEO Max Haot showed off two new hardware products via live-stream (of course).
He also highlighted the new features of Livestream’s Studio 3.0 software, which was just released.
Here’s a quick rundown:

• Studio Surface Go: This is the more portable version of the Studio Surface (it’s the same device without the sound faders and displays, so it takes up a lot less space). It’s assembled in Brooklyn, powered by USB and is small, letting you run multiple inputs off one computer on the go. It has the same super-pretty buttons as the original Studio Surface. It costs $899.
• Studio HD550: Another product focused on portability, but this one has absolutely as much functionality crammed into it as Livestream could manage. Loads of inputs for sound and video, every possible connection type, a full display and even an output for an extra display. It’s a very professional studio built into box that you can carry in a shoulder bag. It costs $7,999.
• Livestream Studio 3.0 software: Studio has lots of new updates that will be important for broadcasting live events in various ways. It has 4K functionality if you have a top-of-the-line device, a new live interview feature that makes it much easier to interview someone remotely, an experimental GoPro feature and more. It costs $799.

There are a bunch of NAB-related discounts running until May 31.
Another feature of the Livestream Studio is worth spelling out in a little more detail: bonding. For important events in which the broadband connection is not ideal, the device lets you break up the data into multiple streams over different sources.
So, say you have WiFi and hardwired ways to deliver the data. It’s possible to use both. In fact, a user can also throw in a 3G or 4G modem and tell the system to only use it as a backup, when connections on other channels get spotty. Cool, huh?