Cobalt Digital Launches UltraBlue IP-MV, a Scalable Software-Based Multi-Display Solution

The UltraBlue IP-MV multi-display, a scalable, software-based IP-based solution, joins the ST 2110 portfolio of solutions from Cobalt Digital.

The new multiscreen Cobalt can be supplied as a turnkey solution with four HDMI heads, or as a software package running on dedicated customer-supplied hardware. Its features include compatibility with reception of audio/video content over IP through a variety of protocols and formats with very flexible audio routing, which provides a multitude of options to adapt to each application.

UltraBlue IP-MV features an intuitive web interface which incorporates support for inputs and outputs Compressed and baseband IP/SDI (ST 2110), allowing the system to grow along with customer needs. Compatible with multiple user logins as well such as per-user access privileges for maximum security, tile configurations are very simple, with arbitrary sizes and orientations, graphical overlays, auxiliary data, counts, UMD and IDs. Furthermore, their PIP settings They can be easily copied, positioned and rotated to suit the user's specific preferences.

Cobalt's solution, introduced at IBC 2024, incorporates support for the most common types of auxiliary data, including various types of subtitle display. Likewise, UltraBlue IP-PV has full audio support, with flexible output audio routing and fully configurable audio bars, and you will be able to use GPU acceleration if available.

The Cobalt multi-display range also includes two SDI systems in openGear format: the 9970-QS 5 cascade inputs, compatible with resolutions up to 3G, and the 9971 18 inputs and 2 heads, compatible with resolutions up to 4K.