Sapphire series covers it all with openGear® cards, mini converters, and support for ST 2110
Cobalt Digital’s Sapphire converter series covers it all with a range that spans from mini units – perfect for production trucks, to the company’s award-winning ST 2110 JPEG-XS to SDI Bulk Gateway and a dual channel bidirectional HDMI-to-SDI / SDI-to-HDMI converter.
Sapphire BBG-2110-H/S & Sapphire BBG-2110-2H – ST 2110 JPEG-XS to HDMI Mini Converters
Cobalt’s Sapphire mini converters are part of its Blue Box Group (BBG) series developed to offer high-quality design, function, and reliability in a small package. The units are intended to be mounted behind the monitor and include single or dual 25Gb/s ports (for ST 2022-7 redundancy). Two models are available: the Sapphire BBG-2110-H/S, a single channel (one HDMI port), and Sapphire BBG-2110-2H, a dual-channel (two HDMI ports). The mini converters also include full NMOS support for ease of configuration.
Sapphire 8JXS-8S – ST 2110 JPEG-XS to SDI Bulk Gateway
Cobalt is answering the need for JPEG-XS bulk conversion with its award-winning Sapphire 8JXS-8S openGear card. The Sapphire 8JXS-8S is the ideal choice for receiving large numbers of JPEG-XS streams over a LAN or WAN and driving devices such as a router or a monitor wall. Able to accept up to 8 independent input JPEG-XS streams (each with its associated audio and ancillary data essences) and converting them to individual SDI outputs makes the card the highest density openGear converter on the market. Up to five Sapphire 8JSX-8S cards can be installed in an openGear frame, for a total of 40 SDI signal conversions in a standard openGear 2RU chassis. The openGear form factor allows Sapphire 8JSX-8S to be combined with other processing in the same chassis, and the high density translates into space and power savings.
Sapphire BIDI-2H2S dual channel bidirectional HDMI to SDI and SDI to HDMI Converter
Cobalt’s recently released Sapphire BIDI-2H2S is a dual channel bidirectional HDMI-to-SDI / SDI-to-HDMI converter in an openGear form factor. Each channel can be independently configured to have either SDI or HDMI inputs and each channel has simultaneous SDI and HDMI outputs. This provides input and output options with independent paths of true 3G and HD conversions to and from all the SD-SDI, HD-SDI and 3G-SDI formats and HDMI. With both SDI and HDMI inputs and outputs (2 each), each path is equipped with frame sync as well as full input and output audio cross-points and optional per-path color correction. Input and output SDI and HDMI cross-points allow bidirectional program sourcing and distribution across both sets of inputs and outputs.