Seems that Avid has gone to AJA for the manufacture of their new IO box, which is a re-badge of their Io 4K Plus, but with a front panel mic input.

Given that the price of the AJA product is $2495, are we expecting the DNxIV to be priced around three thousand dollars?

Anyone know if there's any other differences/advantages with the Avid box over the AJA Io?

german news site reports ~3000$ for the avid version.

hopefully we´ll get  a lot more than a mic input for the 500$,

besides, the dnxio page seems updated: https://www.avid.com/de/products/avid-artist-io

edit:

https://www.videodata.de/shop/products/de/Nonlinear-Video/Hardware/I-O-Boxen/Avid-Artist-DNxIV.html

at the first sight the mic input an the shipping date differs from the aja io4k+

@ibc for german tech channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=rlX9DJQ3lQY

All lot of good scoop here folks....

Avid Artist | DNxIV FAQ

Avid Artist I/O Family Comparison

Avid Artist I/O Family Product Page

questions, please ask in this thread...... so I get emailed directly

Marianna

So in the comparison I see HDMI 2.0a vs. HDMI 2.0b.  DNxIO and DNxIQ have HDMI 2.0aDNxIV has HDMI 2.0b.  My limited understanding ithe the HDMI 2.0b is dual link and a bigger connector with 29 pins.  I have read that no devices support HDMI 2.0b at this time, perhaps this is a dated wikipedia?  How does one take the output of HDMI 2.0b and get it to a more normal HDMI 2.0a device.  Will this output be backwards compatible?

the connector is the same, booth have 19pins.  the 2.0b has a "dynamic synchronize" of audio and video streams, this should prevent choppy playback.

from https://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-is-hdmi-2-0b/

"Changing 2.0a to 2.0b is much more likely, as it's a minor change. As mentioned though, it's not a change you need to worry about right now."

Now that we have 3 avid branded I/O Boxes, i hope they still working and support the other (cheaper) Open I/O devices in future.