The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced the results of its second IPMX Product Certification Test Event, held Aug. 24-28 at European Broadcasting Union headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Eight manufacturers submitted 14 products for testing, and all 14 were officially certified to the Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) standard, qualifying them to carry […]

Cobalt Digital announced that it will showcase its portfolio of solutions at IBC 2026. The Company will conduct technology demonstrations and showcase enhancements that aim to simplify signal processing, monitoring and IP integration as broadcast and professional AV facilities continue to adopt hybrid SDI/IP workflows while transitioning to software-defined production environments. Visitors to the Cobalt […]

THIS IS A PROMOTED POST InfoComm 2026 is about more than product launches — it’s about the people, strategies and ideas driving the next phase of the AV industry. In this Q&A series, exhibitors share what they’re showcasing at the show, the trends influencing their roadmap and the conversations they’re hoping to have with integrators, […]

Champaign, IL – May 25, 2026 — Cobalt Digital, the leading designer and manufacturer of award-winning signal processing products and a founding partner in the openGear initiative, will highlight its expanding IPMX ecosystem at InfoComm 2026 in Booth N7163, engineered to bring broadcast quality to Pro AV applications. The lineup includes standalone signal processors, audio […]

Cobalt Digital officially launched its COBALT blueCORE standalone processors family at NAB Show 2026. The company said that the solutions were designed to bridge the gap between ST 2110/IPMX and SDI. blueCORE aims to provide multi-function audio and video processing for flexible and efficient workflows. Cobalt Digital said that the new family of solutions serves […]

Cobalt Digital officially announced the lineup for its NAB 2026 showcase. The company will display new additions to its end-to-end IPMX and ST 2110 ecosystem alongside other featured solutions. Cobalt Digital is set to debut the COBALT blueCORE family of 1RU fully featured standalone signal processors. The COBALT PACIFIC compression line will also be presented […]

Cobalt Digital Inc. announced that multiple company products successfully completed the inaugural Internet Protocol Media Experience Product Testing and Certification Event . Cobalt Digital products that received IPMX certification include members of its TOPAZ family of processors, PACIFIC encoders/decoders, INDIGO ST 2110 gateways, SAPPHIRE mini convertors, UltraBlue MV-SW multiviewers, and the ARIA AUD-MON – the […]

Cobalt Digital will bring a broad range of signal processing, routing and multiviewer products to NAB Show New York 2025, headlined by its ARIA series of audio monitoring and routing solutions. The company will also present a new hybrid satellite transmission approach and demonstrate its UltraBlue, WAVE and SAPPHIRE product families at Booth #607. The […]

Cobalt Digital has expanded its product line with new hardware designed to support the IPMX open standard, including converters, encoders, audio monitors and multiviewers for AV-over-IP installations. The company debuted two new models in its SAPPHIRE BBG-2110 compact mini converter line: the SAPPHIRE BBG-2110-4Hi/4Sio and the BBG-2110-2Hi2Ho/4Sio. Both support IPMX standards and offer HDMI inputs, […]

Cobalt Digital will demonstrate a range of IPMX-compliant and hybrid solutions for audio, video and multiviewing at InfoComm 2025, June 11–13 in Orlando. The company’s booth (2804) will feature new mini converters, openGear cards and frames, standalone encoders and decoders, and its ARIA audio-monitor line. The ARIA AUD-MON audio monitor occupies a single rack-unit and […]

Barcelona, Spain – February 20, 2025 – Cobalt Digital has announced that its SAPPHIRE BBG-2110-4Ho/4Sio mini converter has won in this year’s Best of Show Awards at ISE 2025 in the AVTechnology category. The quad channel SMPTE ST 2110 – 20/22 baseband to HDMI / SDI converter made its global debut at ISE, which also […]

White Plains, NY – October 15, 2024 – Gene J. Zimmerman, founder, president and CEO of Cobalt Digital, has been named a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). SMPTE Fellows are recognized for attaining an outstanding rank among engineers or executives in media and entertainment through their proficiency and contributions to […]

Cobalt Digital is now aiming for the ProAV market by exhibiting at InfoComm 2024 for the first time. The company aims to maximize its presence in the industry by increasing its visibility with a lineup at InfoComm that brings broadcast-quality, cost-effective, integrator-friendly and versatile technology to the ProAV community. Cobalt will be presenting solutions, many […]

The new COBALT INDIGO OG-2110-BIDI4-GATEWAY is a bidirectional quad-channel native ST 2110 interface to SDI I/O available in the openGear form factor. The transmit and receive paths of the GATEWAY can operate simultaneously. The GATEWAY includes support for ST 2022-7 seamless redundancy switching, as well as IS 04/05 NMOS for automatic discovery and configuration. Cobalt […]

Cobalt Digital is promising broadcasters a “simple path” to ATSC 3.0, an extended line of IP capable multiviewers, a family of high-density routers and control panels, a quad-channel bidirectional gateway to IP processing in openGear form and a new quad-channel 12G DANTE openGear card. Cobalt’s 9905-MPx openGear card brings HDR to ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV). […]

Cobalt Digital is debuting the Sapphire BIDI-2H2S openGear card, bringing new 3G and HD conversion options to pro AV and broadcast applications. Cobalt and the openGear initiative will also be “previewing additional members of its new Sapphire converter series including the Sapphire 8JXS-8S, a ST 2110 JPEG-XS to SDI bulk gateway in openGear form factor, […]

Cobalt Digital introduced the +UDX-Dante-16×16, what the company calls the “industry’s first license-based 12G-SDI bridge to Dante audio.” Cobalt has made Dante’s IP-based audio networking solution available to users on a license basis, which is field upgradable, by incorporating the functionality into the Company’s 9904-UDX processing card. The +UDX-Dante-16×16 supports embedding and de-embedding all the […]

Cobalt Digital has added HDMI-to-SDI and SDI-to-HDMI converter cards to its openGear family of products. The new dual and quad-channel modules come with built-in per-channel frame synchronizers. The new 9926 series target any application requiring signal conversion from HDMI compliant devices, such as computer monitors or video projectors, to broadcast quality SDI formats. The 9927 conversely […]

Cobalt Digital will debut card-based terminal equipment for the openGear platform to address the broadcast, webcast and campus video transport needs of worship media professionals. For sharing video across campus or between different campuses, the new RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) protocol can be used for low latency and high fidelity transport of video and […]

Cobalt Digital today introduced its 9904-UDX-4K-IP next-generation advanced scaler and frame synchronizer for the openGear platform. The new offering from Cobalt simplifies the upgrade of HD and UHD systems, enables ongoing use of existing content libraries, and provides features such as professional Technicolor HDR Intelligent Tone Management (ITM) for production and ATSC 3.0 broadcasting applications. Using the 9904-UDX-4K-IP with HDR […]

Cobalt Digital today announced updates and additions to the popular Blue Box Group (BBG) family of fiber-interface converter boxes. MK2 is the second generation of fiber optic BBG units. MK2 supports Cobalt’s BBGConfig software for setup and status-monitoring over USB and includes the following throwdown fiber-conversion products: BBG-EO-MK2 Single 3G/HD/SD-SDI/ASI/MADI Transmit BBG-OE-MK2 Single 3G/HD/SD-SDI/ASI/MADI Receive […]