“We are delighted to work with NEP again,” stated Chris Shaw, Cobalt’s senior vp of sales and marketing. “NEP trusts our quality, reliability and support enough to return to Cobalt Digital repeatedly for both standard and customized equipment requirements.” Read More...

The STAR Award is designed to celebrate and showcase the preeminent technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. TV Technology Europe's editor reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and their overall contribution to the industry, and then chose 25 winners. Read more...

Available as a convenient PC application, WinOGCP provides the same simplified and instantly available remote control offered by Cobalt’s award-winning OGCP-9000 remote control panel using the same intuitive control layout. The WinOGCP gives users an advanced level of flexibility by utilizing Cobalt’s optional Loudness Metering software to monitor and control loudness levels and dialnorm from anywhere via a LAN/WAN connection. Read more...

As the media and technology partner to the world-famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as well as the Izod Indy Car Series, IMS Productions supplies a full range of services from HD trucks to support vehicles. Our customers demand the highest level of quality possible, and that’s reflected in the cutting-edge technology that we employ.

In addition to auto racing, we also support other major sporting events such as the Indiana Pacers games and Professional Bull Riders competitions.

Signal conversion is an absolute necessity in today’s television environment, and when it was time to invest in converters for our HD trucks we selected Cobalt Digital’s Compass 9061 format converters....

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“We designed these trucks to maximize every bit of space and be future proof,“ said Len Chase, senior engineer. “Cobalt is one of the few manufacturers that have both dual and triple 3G DAs and that was key. We were able to compact as much into a frame as possible and optimize a relatively small area. And though we’re not using it yet, we specifically wanted to make sure that we’re ready for 3G in the future. Cobalt fit both requirements.“ Read more.

The multi-purpose 9901-UDX was honored for its ability to answer signal processing challenges, including loudness processing, audio loudness metering, Dolby® encode and decode, color correction, fiber transmit and receive, and up/down/cross conversion - all on the same module. Read more.

The STAR Award is designed to celebrate and showcase the preeminent technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. TV Technology Europe's editor reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and their overall contribution to the industry, and then chose 25 winners. Read more.

Click the link below for a Broadcast Engineering video spotlight at the IBC show in Amsterdam, featuring Cobalt Digital's V.P. of Sales Chris Shaw, as he introduces for the first time in Europe the new Fusion3G™ series for openGear™.

Link:

http://videos.broadcastengineering.com/cobalt-digital

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.

"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.

"We recently provided one of our high-definition multicamera packages to the MLB Network for the World Series games at Yankee Stadium. Our main system cube provided routing and fiber delivery of all of their signals back to the MLB Network's New Jersey location.  Space was at a premium and it was a real advantage to be able to pack 80 HD-SDI 1x4 DA's into 8 RU.

As can be imagined, reliability was a major consideration on this job, as no second takes were possible, and our Cobalt Digital products were their usual rock steady selves, never missing a beat."

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Today’s broadcasters work with content from a wide variation of sources and other stations, requiring the ability to manage differences in loudness from program to program. Cobalt Digital and Linear Acoustic® have teamed up to provide a solution to be made available within a number of Cobalt’s 9000 series COMPASS™ cards for the openGear™ format.

Cobalt Digital Inc. is excited to introduce the latest additions to the COMPASS™ line of 9000 series signal processing solutions for openGear™ at the 2009 IBC show in Amsterdam, September 11-15 (Cobalt Stand 8.A94).

“We are frame syncing, color correcting, embedding and de-embedding dozens of signals throughout the plant. By using Cobalt products with the DashBoard™ control and monitoring software and OGCP-9000 remote control panels, we achieved one of the holy grails of system design: all video and audio processing under a common control scheme. The OGCP-9000 control panels are at key quality control points along the production work flow.

By Dirk Carlson, Senior Online Editor, CCI Digital

[...] "We began the task of system design and equipment identification early in 2008. Gear selection was based in large part on reliability and manufacturer support and service. We also looked carefully at signal flexibility, ease of use, and IP connectivity. TV Magic suggested the Cobalt Digital 9000 series of converters and other terminal equipment as meeting all of these requirements and more.

Featuring the award-winning openGear™ platform, Cobalt equipment used by NEP included 9821 downconverting distribution amplifiers, 9061/9062 up/down/cross converters, 9084 color correctors, and 9081/9083 audio muxes and demuxes.