I'm here with Jeff about to talk all things Corsair and Elgato, Jeff how's
your CES so far? Pretty exciting. We've had quite a lot of launches or
announcements that we've been covering from not just Elgato but Corsair, Scuf,
Origin basically our entire family, so yeah it's been it's been quite busy but we're making it through.
So yeah. Awesome, glad to hear it, yeah a huge year for you guys. So let's start off by
talking about the 4K60 S+ Elgato capture card. Yeah for sure. So I mean for
the longest time Elgato has been the capture card guys for almost ten years
now and this is really the culmination of years of hard work because you know
it's again we're doing something that nobody else has done before which is
getting 4K 60HDR footage over USB 3.0. And you know to do that we had to put in
what's called an HEVC encoder which is basically it's a complicated and
expensive kind of thing that makes this whole thing possible, but it lets us get
the 4K over USB 3.0 so you can use it with not just a desktop and a laptop now.
That HEVC also allows us to do something called standalone recording
which instead of using a computer period
you can write your footage directly to an SD card so you know our system over here we just
have a PS4 and a 4K60 S+ and it's just hooked into it and you can press
the big red button it starts recording you can take the SD card out you have
your footage. So this is gonna be really great for both seasoned
content creators who go to capture events because gaming publishers are like 'Hey
would you like to record our new upcoming game for promotion?' and this is
gonna make that process a lot easier. But yeah they say that but then they say "but
you need to bring your own capture device" which previously then you would
need like a Blackmagic or an Atomos or something like that to take with you a
in addition to a capture card, this is kind of a two-for-one. Yeah and it's just a normal
SD card which pretty much everybody's used to, it's not like 2TBs
of raw video data that you're like how am I going to edit this so
it makes that process a lot easier. But then also going towards the
other end you know it kind of makes 4K content creation available for anybody
because let's say you don't have that powerful of the computer you can still
record that high-quality footage and upload straight to YouTube, so that's
gonna really open up a lot of doors and just make 4K accessible for
everybody. That's awesome and when can we expect to see that in retail? Quarter
one of this year. All right, love it! I also see we're doing something new with
Elgatos key light. Yes, so last year at CES we announced the
Elgato key light which was the first light optimized for
content creators and it really started from the mounting system up because
traditionally content creators sort of co-opted equipment from the photography
space like 'oh let's grab these big soft boxes and light stands' but when you put
it in a bedroom, it's like half the space and you can't have your desk against
the wall or anything like that, so it really started with okay how can we save
some square footage here? And so we actually had a desk clamp mounting system
which saved tons of space, and the response was really great for key
light, but a lot of people are like I can't quite get to that $200 price point,
and so we wanted to make the power of key light more accessible with a Key Light Air.
So it's smaller, it rests on your desktop and
it's $129.99 instead of $199.99 so it's a little bit more than half
the cost. Really it should open the doors for a lot more content creators to
get good light for their setup because not a lot of people realized that
lighting plays the biggest part in your in your video quality. You have a
thousand dollar camera, but if you're in the dark you could have a
webcam look better than that. So with these lights you can make a webcam
look great too. Yeah I use a Logitech webcam and because of my lighting setup
I constantly get compliments on 'Oh what can we are using?' and really it's just
a webcam, but I see that this obviously has a larger footprint on your
desktop than the clamp, but you're saving $70 at your price point. Yeah exactly it's one
of those things where it's like if you're not quite sure if that's the jump
that you want to make, it is an easier way to get into that. And who's not to say
you can mix and match, because one, the Key Light Air is compatible
with a multi-mount which you can buy separately, also you could switch
to that eventually, and you could also get one Key Light Air and one Key Light
to do kind of like your traditional two point setup where you have your key light
and then your fill light. Well and the base on the Key
Light Air is still significantly smaller than if you were trying to set up a
traditional soft box light kind of tripod setup. The the real cool thing
about you know besides just like the cool controls that we've added where you
can control it with your Stream Deck, or your phone, or your Windows or Mac
computer. Just the fact that we were able to add such it's like five layers of
diffusion and about that thick of a light, so basically it mimics the soft
cast of lighting that a soft box provides, but because it's LED it doesn't have the
heat, so you're not like sweating after like you know an hour into your stream.
And it doesn't take up space because again, if you're pushing your
desk up against the wall you want this big umbrella or soft box you know just
kind of knocking you in the face. Yeah if anyone's ever seen any photos of
my personal setup, mine is the perfect example for what you're
describing as soft box umbrella kind of falling into you while you're streaming,
and it gets mighty toasty, so I think I'm definitely gonna need to make an upgrade.
All right now tell me about this beautiful keyboard behind us. Yeah so
that's the new Corsair K95 XT and so this is kind of like the first of you
know what kind of people were expecting since
Corsair acquiring Elgato back in 2018, about like what kind of things we
could do at a product level. So the K95 has been a pretty flagship keyboard
for the past few years and you know we work together with Corsair to get iCUE to
talk with our Stream Deck software so now if you have a K95 Platinum Series
RGB keyboard the G keys can be used in Stream Deck. It is a
completely free thing so if you already have you know that version of the K95
or if you decide to get the new version that was announced and
launched yesterday, you can basically make it a lot more powerful. You can control
your camera angles, your graphics and everything, and what's also cool is like
while there aren't LCD screens on those buttons we actually made a little
overlay that just overlays on top of your game or your desktop so you can
actually kind of reference it quickly and be like okay this is how I turn on
my key light or this is how I switch to my full screen camera scene. We're
trying to think of the little details that really make that integration a lot
more compelling. And for those of you who have not used a Stream Deck before it
will change your life, so having that functionality built into the K95 is
huge. And you guys also had a video that went sort of viral well say
yesterday, it got a lot of buzz. You had a video yesterday that got a lot of buzz,
tell me about that. So yesterday we announced something we
call "Project Wave" which is coming in spring of 2020
and you know, it's kind of a teaser video so we just have to let people draw their
own conclusions on what it might be. There's quite a
few little audio elements that you see in the video so there's been
quite a lot of guesses of people saying what it is, but we think that people will
be pleasantly surprised once we have the more details to come later this year.
Okay do you have any like Newegg exclusive hints you can give us about
what it might be? I actually posted this on Twitter the other day where all I
did was three emojis. And what three emojis? The wave emoji, the speaker
emoji, and fire. because it's lit. All right guys so leave your guesses in the comments below.
Awesome, well Jeff just thank you so much for chatting with us today and have a great
CES. Thank you very much. Thank you for stopping by, we appreciate it.