Anthony Klick Joins Cobalt as Northeast US Sales Manager
September 3, 2010
Anthony Klick, an accomplished industry veteran with strong ties to America’s Northeast region, has joined Cobalt Digital as manager of sales, Northeastern US. The announcement was made by Chris Shaw, vice president of sales, from Cobalt’s headquarters located in Urbana, IL. Read more.
NEP Color Corrects with Cobalt Digital
August 30, 2010
Cobalt Digital has supplied color corrector panels to NEP Broadcasting to complement the new Fusion3G™ 9901-UDX converter unit. NEP, the leading international provider of mobile tele-production services, is using the fully-featured package for up/down/cross conversion, frame synchronization, and color correction on its two new state-of-the-art 3D trucks – SS31 and SS32 - for production of live 3D sports and entertainment events. Read more.
Fusion3G™ for openGear™ to Launch in Europe at IBC 2010
August 30, 2010
Cobalt Digital will launch their new range of 3 Gigabit-capable Fusion3G™ cards for the first time in Europe at IBC 2010, Stand 8.A94.
Fusion3G are multi-functional, multi-featured cards for openGear™ that offer solutions to all of today’s signal processing challenges, including Loudness Processing, Audio Loudness Metering, Dolby® Encode and Decode, Colour Correction, Fibre Transmit and Receive, and Up/Down/Cross Conversion. Inputs and outputs include analogue video and audio, HD/SD-SDI video & audio, and Fibre. Read more.
Cobalt Keeps Quality Up as Prices Drop on Distribution Amplifiers for openGear™
August 26, 2010
Cobalt Digital has announced a dramatic price reduction on its range of 3G/HD/SD distribution amplifiers for openGear™. Effective immediately, the distribution amplifiers will be available at an average of 50% off the former cost and will start at $399. openGear is the next generation standard that handles video and audio processing cards from multiple manufacturers in the same frame. Read more.
Fusion3G™ Series Scores for NEP at Historic 3D Baseball Broadcasts
August 2, 2010
Cobalt Digital’s new Fusion3G™ converters were on board NEP Productions’ two 3D production trucks as they provided coverage for MLB’s historic first 3D broadcasts.
"We wanted a ‘one card does it all’ solution for 3gb applications in 1080 3D work, and the Cobalt Digital 9901-UDX models give us exactly what we need,” said George Hoover, Chief Technology Officer for NEP Broadcasting.
