Champaign, IL ā May 25, 2021Ā ā CobaltĀ® Digital, designer and manufacturer of award-winning edge devices for live video production and master control, has announced that its implementation of theĀ Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST)Ā Main Profile now includes full support for certificate-based authentication. The enhanced functionality gives users of CobaltāsĀ 9992 encoder/decoder familyĢż²¹²Ō»åĢż9990 decoderĀ an added level of security by ensuring the identity of the remote site when transmitting content over the Internet with RIST. Cobalt is an original contributor to the RIST protocol and is also a founding partner in the openGearĀ® initiative.
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5.14.2021
Champaign, IL ā May 13, 2021Ā ā CobaltĀ® Digital, designer and manufacturer of award-winning edge devices for live video production and master control, and a founding partner in the openGearĀ® initiative, has added more members to its family of Distribution Amplifiers. TheĀ 9910DA 3G-RCK 3G/HD/SD/ASI seriesĀ of openGear cards has further expanded to include the all newĀ 9910DA-1QĢż²¹²Ō»åĢż9910DA-2QĀ models that follow in the footsteps of their predecessor, theĀ 9910DA-4Q. The addition of these models offers customers a unique configuration flexibility choice of one, two and four input channels while delivering distance performance up to 170m.
5.11.2021
Champaign, IL ā April 23, 2021āCobaltĀ® Digital, designer and manufacturer of award-winning edge devices for live video production and master control, and a founding partner in the openGearĀ® initiative, has announced that several of its solutions have been enhanced with unique features. The solutions, Cobaltās broadcast-grade 9992 encoder and decoder family are industry standard openGearĀ® card modules that already provide professional-grade support for compressed audio and video. The cards are designed to meet the stringent requirements of todayās broadcasters and provide an ideal platform for transitioning to state-of-the-art encoding and decoding capabilities.
2.25.2021
Champaign, IL ā February 25, 2021 ā Cobalt Digital, provider of a best-of-breed interoperability signal processing platform, has announced that its EVP of engineering, Dr. Ciro Noronha, will deliver a presentation during Virtual VidTrans 2021 that evaluates options for transporting HDR over a communications link using compression. The session, entitled āBit-Rate Evaluation of Compressed HDR using SL-HDR1ā is scheduled for Monday, March 1 at 10:30 eastern and is free to all attendees.
2.22.2021
Yang Quan City, Shanxi Province, China ā February 22, 2021 ā Yangquan TV has rolled out its latest outside broadcast (OB) truck optimized for 4K and supported on-board by a significant complement of Cobalt Digitalās 12G and HD openGear modules. Yangquan TV, a government run broadcaster located in Yang Quan City in the Shanxi Province of China, built the truck to address a growing appetite for enhanced resolution in sports programming.
2.10.2021
Champaign, ILĀ ā February 9, 2021 - Cobalt Digital, an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of award-winning edge devices for live video production and master control, and a founding partner in the openGearĀ® initiative, has announced that it has acquired the IP and manufacturing rights to multiple Ward-Beck openGear cards, effective immediately. The result is a significantly expanded product portfolio at price points that appeal to a variety of applications and budgets.
12.9.2020
Champaign, ILĀ ā December 9, 2020 ā Google has recently and publicly introduced HDR support on YouTube. Cobalt Digital, and our 9992-ENC HEVC Upgradeable AVC / MPEG2 Software Defined Broadcast Encoder is listed as one of the few compatible hardware encoders. See for more information.
9.7.2020
Champaign, ILĀ ā September 7, 2020 ā CobaltĀ®, an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of award-winning edge devices for live video production and master control, and a founding partner in the openGearĀ® initiative, has a new mini frame that fills a need when space is an issue and functionality canāt be compromised.Ā
8.26.2020
Champaign, IL ā August 26, 2020 ā CobaltĀ®, an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of award-winning edge devices for live video production and master control, and a founding partner in the openGearĀ® initiative, is significantly lowering latency for its 9992-ENC software defined broadcast encoder card series. The Company has announced the release of an Ultra-Low Latency Mode, a Ā breakthrough development that combines parallel processing with GDR (Gradual Decoder Refresh) and a suitable CPB (Coded Picture Buffer) to achieve encoder latencies as low as 10 milliseconds making it desirable for any broadcaster of live events such as sports or news.
5.8.2020
Cobalt Digital has published a paper called āBit-Rate Evaluation of Compressed HDR Using SL-HDR1ā early 2020 to compare the efficiency of different options for distributing HDR content in HDR10 or SL-HDR1.