At NAB Show 2026, Cobalt Digital will present new additions to its IPMX and ST 2110 portfolio at Booth N1340.
The company says its lineup covers standalone processors, audio monitoring, multiviewers, gateways, mini converters, and openGear cards. The NAB presentation will focus on tools that connect SDI and IP workflows across different production environments.
blueCORE standalone processing
Cobalt Digital will introduce COBALT blueCORE at NAB Show 2026. The company describes blueCORE as a new family of 1RU standalone signal processors.
Cobalt has not yet released full details. However, the company says blueCORE will be a fully featured standalone processing platform and one of the main new products on its NAB lineup.
PACIFIC updates for ST 2110, IPMX, and satellite support
Cobalt will also expand the COBALT PACIFIC compression line. The company is adding an ST 2110 and IPMX output option for the COBALT PACIFIC ULL-DEC upgradeable software-defined broadcast decoder.
With this update, decoded content can be available over SDI and over ST 2110 or IPMX at the same time. For ST 2110 operation, the built-in frame sync outputs a PTP-locked signal.
Cobalt is also adding a factory-installed DVB-S and DVB-S2 demodulator option. This allows decoding and pass-through of satellite signals on ASI and over IP.
In addition, the company is adding support for hybrid Satellite-Internet operation to the PACIFIC line. According to Cobalt, this mode follows VSR TR-06-4 Part 7. It uses satellite for bulk distribution and the internet to recover lost packets. The company says this supports the use of Ku and Ka bands for distribution.
New openGear cards
Cobalt Digital is also introducing new fixed-function openGear cards as lower-cost entry points with license-based expansion.
The new 9925-FSx Frame Sync card is a one-path frame sync card. It supports license upgrades up to four paths per card. It also offers an audio processing license upgrade for AES, MADI, and DANTE 64 support.
The new 9981-LUTx Color Processor card is an entry-level color processing card. It also supports license upgrades up to four paths per card. Available options include SCALER, BBC LUT, COLOR, 4K, LOGO, and ANC.
ARIA AUD-MON and audio workflow tools
Cobalt will also highlight products for end-to-end IPMX and ST 2110 workflows. One of them is the COBALT ARIA AUD-MON audio monitor.
The company says ARIA AUD-MON is fully IPMX-compliant. It is designed for operations moving toward IP-based workflows and supports 16 SDI or 64 MADI metering in a rack-mount form factor. Cobalt says the unit includes a Class-D amplifier with DSP, selected speaker components, a touch display front panel, and eight separate volume controls for mixing. Users can also control it through a web interface.
The company will also feature the 9935-AUD4-DANTE. This is a quad-channel card with up to 12G DANTE, AES, MADI, embed, and de-embed functions, along with frame sync capabilities. It includes two gigabit Ethernet ports, a 64×64 configuration, and a full audio router mixer.
UltraBlue MV-SW multiviewer
Cobalt will also show the COBALT UltraBlue MV-SW multiviewer range at NAB Show 2026. These multiviewers are available either as turnkey systems with four HDMI heads or as software packages for customer-supplied hardware.
According to the company, UltraBlue can receive compressed and baseband audio and video over IP across multiple protocols and formats. It also supports flexible audio routing. Cobalt adds that the multiviewer now supports IPMX as well as ST 2110 and continues to support SDI inputs and outputs.
SAPPHIRE mini converters
The company will also present multiple models from the COBALT SAPPHIRE mini converter line. These units are standalone mini converters with IPMX capability.
Cobalt says the range includes single-channel, dual-channel, and quad-channel models. Some models can transmit and receive at the same time. The SAPPHIRE line converts between IPMX-compatible and SMPTE ST 2110-compatible signals and SDI or HDMI, with support for baseband video and JPEG-XS.
INDIGO gateways
Another part of the NAB Show 2026 lineup is the COBALT INDIGO gateway family. Cobalt positions these products as on-ramps and off-ramps between IP and SDI.
The company says INDIGO supports both IPMX and ST 2110. It is intended to simplify interoperability, routing, and format translation while maintaining image quality and latency performance in hybrid infrastructure environments.
