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www.inbroadcast.com | Preview - New York | 18-19 October 2017

Cobalt Digital Debuts
Cobalt Digital has a number of products making
their debuts at NAB New York show...

M

aking its debut is the
FAST-STREAM system - a
comprehensive solution for providing
baseband SDI signals and HTTP Live
Streaming (HLS) streams with frameaccurate boundary points, complete
with the SCTE 35 metadata contained
in the associated manifest file.
Applications range from URL
address insertion for targeted ad
replacement to embedded DRM for
distributing protected content. The
FAST-STREAM OTT system interfaces
with automation and uses timestamps
to insert metadata frame-accurately
into baseband SDI before encoding
Cobalt Channel
Integrator

the stream in high-quality H.264 for
digital program insertion delivery
requirements in real-time.
The AUD-PRO integrated audio
processing and encoding solution
supports multiple accelerated DSP
features that can be added in the field.
Cobalt's 9902-UDX-DSP-CI Channel
Integrator, a 3G/HD/SD-SDI/CVBS up/
down/cross-converter provides the
signal conversion and processing tool
set required to conform input analog
and digital audio and video signals,
and their associated metadata to meet
sophisticated content and channeldelivery requirements. Enhanced video
processing includes broadcast-quality
up/down/cross-conversion with noise
reduction and detail enhancement.
Channel
Integrator
audio
features
include
analog
and
AES
audio
embedding
and
de-embedding with
multiple mixers and
per-channel delay.

Optional is Linear Acoustic upmixing,
Dolby decoding and encoding (E, AC-3,
E-AC-3), and Dolby Real-Time Loudness
Levelling
Also on display is Cobalt's
new
9971-MV-4K
Series
UHD
multiviewers with 12G-SDI support. The
multiviewers' UHD 3840 x 2160 output
is available via 12G-SDI and HDMI
2.0 concurrently. Two models are
available: The 9971-MV6-4K accepts
six 12G-SDI inputs, with an order-time
option to add four HDMI 2.0 inputs to
the mix; The 9971-MV18-4K supports
up to 18 12G-SDI inputs and will drive
two independent UHD display outputs.
Visitors to Cobalt's stand can see the
new 9904-UDX-4K 12G/6G/3G/HD/
SD-SDI UHD up/down/cross-converter
and frame synchronizer designed
for openGear® frames. The 9904 can

up-convert 3G/HD to UHD1 3840 x
2160, providing either quad 3G-SDIbased square division or two-sample
interleave formats, as well as singlewire ST 2082 12G-SDI. The unit can also
perform the reverse in down-converter
mode and has two HDMI 2.0 outputs
for cost-efficient monitoring.
Cobalt is introducing the new BBGDA-12G-1X6 brick form-factor UHD
distribution amplifier to the European
market.
Cobalt's
compression
products
division has developed useful new
features for the company's popular
line of MPEG encoders and decoders.
Enhancements include the +RTP/ARQ
license option, which greatly enhances
performance when streaming over the
Internet.
Another key feature on display will
be Cobalt's support for SMPTE 2038
VANC transport. This industry standard
provides the ability to carry ancillary
data packets in the MPEG-2 transport
stream.
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Cobalt FAST-STREAM OTT

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