Cobalt Digital's Exhibition NAB 2013 Plans Reflect Direct Response to Customer Requests

Cobalt Digital has revealed an NAB 2013 line-up that reflects its commitment to accommodate customer requests.  The manufacturer of award-winning 3G/HD/SD-SDI conversion gear for broadcast environments will display a complement of never before seen products, as well as numerous enhancements, developed to keep customers ahead of the technology curve in a competitive market with reliable, cost effective gear in Booth N4624.
 
Highlights Include:

• Obsidian3G - a new series of terminal gear cards offering the highest quality performance and improved frame density with pricing sensibility, will be launched featuring a DCDA down converter/distribution amplifier. This will be followed by DCDA-3G and DCDA-3G2 dual down converters with 3G, frame sync and AES outputs.   

• Fiber units for the recently released Blue Box Group™ - a range of throw-down modular bricks designed to answer the demand for first class quality, price competitive, signal conversion equipment.

• Cobalt’s widely embraced Fusion3G® cards will now offer even higher performance with Dolby DD+ with simultaneous 5.1 and 2.0 in addition to their comprehensive array of processing features that include format conversion, frame sync, wings insertion, keying, color correction, advanced audio processing, full analog I/O, audio/video delay, audio embed/de-embed/cross-point and up/down mixing.

• SpotCheck®, Cobalt’s audio loudness measurement and recorded data logging system, has been enhanced with up to 16 video channels containing up to 32 audio channels. The new version -  SpotCheck®-2016  – monitors, meters and logs loudness compliance over extended time-periods and now supports codecs H.264, MPEG2, MP1L2, DD, AAC.

• Demonstrations of the new Descriptive Video Services technology – Video for the vision impaired – will be available on the booth.

• The Company will also now offer a timecode burner inserter on its 9000 series card.