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InTech
Cobalt Digital's NAB 2022 Was an
Extremely Awarding Experience!
T
urning 25 isn't the only thing
Cobalt celebrated this NAB. The
designer and manufacturer of edge
devices
for
and master control, a founding
partner in the openGear®
initiative,
and a founding member of the RIST
(Reliable Internet Stream Transport)
group, was happy to return to an inperson
event and see the customers,
friends, and
colleagues
they've
missed since 2019. But the Cobalt
team was also excited to share the
new technologies they've developed
to address the seismic changes in
the industry these past two years. At
NAB, these solutions were recognized
for their innovation and potential
and the Company added four more
awards to its collection, bringing the
grand total to 40 that the Company
has earned since it was founded over
a quarter of a century ago.
" We won our very first award in
1997, the same year the company
was established, and we haven't
rested since, " said Gene Zimmerman,
Cobalt's
Founder, President, and
CEO. " Since day 1, Cobalt has been
live video production
on a mission to respond to customer
requests with affordable and reliable
products and provide the industry
with innovative solutions that drive
progress forward and align with an
evolving market. We were already
celebrating our silver anniversary at
NAB, but these awards really made
it a very special show and validate
our philosophy that our success is a
result of our customers' success. "
The Cobalt booth was packed with
new and enhanced products, and
the team was busy demonstrating
solutions that support the remote
production, OTT and
cloud
technologies that were pushed to the
forefront of an industry threatened
by, but not defeated by, the Covid
19 pandemic. The Company
home multiple awards
for its
compression line (9992-ENC and
9992-DEC products) which includes
the industry's
first
seamless
synchronized
multi-stream decoding solution with
RIST capability
and multi-link in
switching mode also
running RIST. RIST is an open-source,
open-specification transport protocol
that allows the use of the Internet as
a cost-effective, reliable, high-quality
and low-latency contribution link.
Cobalt's multi-function, versatile
took
9904-UDX-4K audio/video processor
card was demonstrated with +HDRTCHCLR-4K
real-time intelligent HDR
conversion powered by 'Advanced
by
that
Technicolor', a new feature
allows inverse tone mapping
SDR to HDR, followed by SL-HDR1
in seamless fashion. And NAB also
served as the backdrop to introduce
Cobalt's +UDX-Dante-16x16, the
industry's
first
and very cost-effective support
high-density, convenience
to
Cobalt Digital team and booth at NAB Show 2022
Shown for the first
SMPTE
ST-2110
Dante users.
time at a major industry event was
Cobalt's Indigo 2110-DC-01, its
openGear-based
solution with dual 25G interfaces
and
4K
integrated
support.
factory
best-of-class native
ST 2110
audio/video processing to the
Company's 9904-UDX-4K and 9905MPx
audio/video processor cards.
Added Zimmerman, " It's true that
license-based
12G-SDI bridge to Dante audio that
brings
we can do business without trade
shows if we have to, but I think we'll
all agree... it was great to be back
with our friends in the industry! "
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