It's PURE marketing. Selling new panels.
The fact that the BMD protocol actually doesnt change that much/ not at all lately..
Also fact the Panel is communicating with the Switcher!! Because it retrieves the name of the Atem. and displays this in the screen of your panel.
Meaning it has a perfect connection, keeps a perfect connection, as it does not go back to Searching for Atem on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
So basically it is a software block to move people into buying new panels.
And the big problem is that they are not able to sell new panels due too short supply of parts..
With IBC within 4 weeks.. They will get a LOT of complains if they do not fix this issue soon!!
Very BAD move from BMD to play it out like this with no Fair warning that the old panels are not supported anymore.
Should have been a BIG statement from release...