The Cobalt® BBG-1002-UDX 3G/HD/SD-SDI Standalone Up-Down-Cross Converter/Frame Sync/Audio Embed-De-Embed with Multi-Input Auto-Changeover provides a high-density standalone unit that offers unprecedented multi-input support and flexibility. Multiple SDI input ports allow manual selection of input, or failover to alternate inputs (Auto-Changeover) on loss of input conditions.

With option +ANC, the BBG-1002-UDX offers full VANC/HANC ancillary data packet de-embedding and embedding for 3G/HD/SD-SDI streams. The easy to use interface allows direct access to DID and SDID locations to extract or insert user data such as camera PTZ, SCTE 104, closed-captioning read/insert, GPI/GPO via ANC, or other specialized user payloads. Data can be extracted and inserted within the card, bypassing the scaler (Bridge mode), or inserted and/or extracted to and from external interface via serial or IP interfaces.

Quality Check option +QC allows failover to alternate inputs based on user-configurable subjective criteria such as black/frozen frame. Two discrete character burn strings can be inserted on output video, with each string inserted as static text and/or insert only upon LOS. With option +T-SLATE, import of user trouble slate graphics is also supported in addition to standard test pattern insert as an input LOS/quality event marker. A moving-box insertion can be enabled to serve as a dynamic raster confidence check even when the input video image is static. Included standard is closed captioning absence/presence detection that allows CEA 608/708 and line 21 SD CC absence or presence to be detected, with event actions consisting of GPO, automated alert email actions, or go-to card user presets or other actions.

The up/down/cross convert scaler is specifically designed for broadcast video progressive and interlaced formats, with full ARC control suitable for conversions to or from 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios. 3:2 pulldown optimization allows A-frame to use alignment correlated to received timecode or 6 Hz external input over GPI. AFD processing can detect an incoming AFD code and correspondingly set scaling to track with AFD. Linear Frame Rate Conversion option +FRC allows conversion between virtually any SD/HD/3G format – from 525/625i to 1080p and anything in-between – with conversion to and from NTSC and PAL available for all input and output formats. The BBG-1002-UDX also provides analog CVBS video inputs and outputs, and AES/analog audio embedding and de-embedding.

Option +TTS provides high-quality Text-To-Speech synthesis, directly converting EAS text to digital audio speech with no baseband signal breakouts or add-ons. It interfaces with industry standard Windows Share folder systems to receive non-proprietary text, XML, or similar plain text files, and converts and inserts realistic human-voice audio into user-configured audio channels. Option +EAS provides the ideal solution for keying Emergency Alert System (EAS) text crawls in the active video. Option +EAS directly converts serial crawl text data from EAS generators (such as Sage™ or Dasdec™) to a keyed scrolling text insertion. User-configurable fill background color and text size can be correlated to event severity. Option +EAS provides EAS crawl burn-ins directly from industry standard EAS devices such as Sage™.

Preset save/load allows saving custom card settings while allowing one-button revert to factory settings. Layered presets allow invoking changes related only to a specific area of concern (audio routing, for example) while not changing any other processing settings or aspects.

The BBG-1002-UDX can be remote-controlled using DashBoard™. GPIO allows direct input routing control and status monitoring. The compact standalone form factor allows desktop usage, as well as the 1/3-rack size of the BBG-1002-UDX allowing 3 units to be installed in a 1RU space (an optional mounting tray is available that provides secure mounting of the units to a standard 19”