Blackmagic Design announced the first UltraStudio 4K model at IBC in 2012. In October 2013 they released an upgraded version, claiming it to be “the world’s first video solution to include super-fast Thunderbolt 2 technology”.
The original DeckLink Quad was announced in 2011 at NAB as “4 separate DeckLink capture cards” that plug into just one PCIe slot. Four years later, at IBC 2015, Blackmagic Design announced Quad 2 — a “capture and playback solution that puts the…