CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – June 10, 2019 – Cobalt Digital today announced the promotion of Kyle Wilken to vice president of firmware. Wilken joined the company in 2013 as a senior FPGA engineer, and was previously promoted to embedded systems development manager in 2015.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – May 21, 2019 – To address the growing need for 4K solutions for live production and master control operations, Cobalt Digital will demonstrate several of its 4K products designed for openGear® frames at BroadcastAsia 2019 (Booth 6H3-01), which runs June 18-20 in Suntec City, Singapore.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – April 3, 2019 – Between its 4K and HDR workflow solutions, as well as promotion of a new internet transport protocol, Cobalt Digital will demonstrate a number of technologies for broadcasters next week at the 2019 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nev. The company will showcase its full complement of card-based solutions for openGear® frames for 4K and HDR workflows at Booth SL9111. Plus, on April 7 in Las Vegas, the company will receive an Emmy® Award for “Pioneering Reliable Transmission Method for Live Contribution and Distribution TV Links.”
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – March 27, 2019 – Cobalt Digital will demonstrate its new 9914 Series of distribution amplifiers at the 2019 NAB Show (Booth SL9111) next month in Las Vegas, Nev. Designed to support 4K 12G-SDI sources, the new cards are built for openGear® frames and allow for copper runs long enough to reach most equipment within a rack room or production truck.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – March 19, 2019 –Certainly Latin American female engineers face the challenge of breaking social and professional paradigms every day, for that reason, it is a pleasure to meet professionals such as Suzana Brady. Brady moved from Brazil to the US in her quest for knowledge and ended up at the epicenter of technology in the world: Silicon Valley.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – March 14, 2019 – Cobalt Digital today announced a partnership with Starfish Technologies, a U.K.-based broadcast technology company, to provide transport stream splicing using the Starfish Technologies TS Splicer software and the Cobalt SCTE-104/35 insertion system. The new solution creates an affordable, automated ad insertion or media replacement system for broadcast, IPTV, satellite, and cable TV applications.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – March 13, 2019 – Cobalt Digital will address video processing and encoding issues for house of worship applications at Proclaim19 (Booth 809), the NRB International Christian Media Convention, which runs March 27-29 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. The company will showcase a variety of its card-based terminal equipment for the openGear® platform to address the broadcast, webcast, and campus video transport needs of worship media professionals
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – March 11, 2019 – Cobalt Digital will demonstrate its new 9971 Series of UHD multiviewers for the openGear® platform next month at the 2019 NAB Show (Booth SL9111) in Las Vegas, Nev. The new cards support a variety of asynchronous signals and offer HDMI outputs for economical monitoring on consumer-grade 4K monitors.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Feb. 27, 2019 – Cobalt Digital today announced Kurt Caruthers has joined the company as sales manager for the U.S. Central Region, effective Feb. 25. He replaces Jacob Kinsey, who has been promoted to chief development officer after more than 10 years with the company.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Feb. 12, 2019 – Cobalt Digital today announced it will participate in two multi-vendor demonstrations of the Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) protocol for video contribution over the internet at the VidTrans19 Conference & Expo, which runs Feb. 26-28 at the Marina Del Rey Marriott in Marina del Rey, Calif. In addition, Ciro Noronha, Ph.D., director of technology for Cobalt Digital, will present “An Overview of Compressed Video Transport Protocols over IP” on Feb. 27, and will participate on a panel discussion on Feb. 28.