Cobalt expands IPMX and ST 2110 lineup for IBC2026

Cobalt’s IBC2026 lineup targets the ongoing shift from SDI to hybrid IP workflows, where broadcasters want ST 2110, IPMX, and Dante-compatible tools that are easier to deploy and operate. That fits a broader IBC theme around interoperable live-production infrastructure, especially for OB vans, compact control rooms, and mixed-vendor facilities. The most useful signal to watch next is whether these IPMX and JPEG XS updates show up as shipping options across the listed product families, rather than limited demo-only features at the show.

Cobalt Digital has spent 2026 broadening the same IPMX/ST 2110 platform across pro AV and broadcast shows, with MPTS, ISE, InfoComm, and NAB all used to frame the company’s hybrid SDI-to-IP story rather than treating IBC as a one-off announcement. That matters because Cobalt Digital is positioning its hardware as part of a wider interoperability push, not just a single-product upgrade cycle.

Cobalt Digital’s IPMX push also tracks the formalization of the media-over-IP stack itself, including the IPMX JPEG XS video profile requirements published in April 2026, while VSF’s 2026 work on ST 2110 and IPMX interoperability shows the standards layer is still being actively refined. For buyers, that means product roadmaps are being timed to standards maturity as much as to feature demand.

Independent coverage has also kept pointing back to Cobalt Digital’s focus on low-latency, visually lossless transport, with JPEG XS Temporal Differential Coding and broad JPEG XS support across Cobalt’s IPMX-certified products called out in recent trade reporting. The practical takeaway is that Cobalt Digital is using codec flexibility, not just more ports, to make hybrid routing easier when facilities have to straddle SDI, IPMX, and ST 2110 at the same time.