Category: General

At IBC, add these openGear stops to your show plan to get more flexibility from your tech.

General by czuelsdorf

See what’s new from AJA, Apantac, Cobalt, MultiDyne, Ross Video, VITEC & Decimator. If you’re heading to Amsterdam, make sure the openGear Leader Partners are on your “must see” list. Whether you need to get more from the infrastructure you already have, upgrade for new requirements, or prepare for what’s coming next, you’ll find plenty to see and talk about […]

Ross Video’s New Server-Based Remote Control for openGear DashBoard

General by czuelsdorf

Plus an Affordable New 12G Distribution Amplifier If you use DashBoard with your openGear signal processing equipment, you’ll want to hear about the new Ross Platform Manager. It’s a server-based technology that gives web access to DashBoard-enabled products.  Everything is centralized, so in distributed scenarios, where you’re working with custom panels and things like that, now it’s all in one […]

VITEC’s New Diamond-IP OG Encoder Enables Low Latency Streaming in IP Workflows

General by Colin Jacques

If your workflows include IP, especially in cases where you need low latency streaming capability, there’s a new encoder you should know about. The latest addition to VITEC’s popular line of openGear encoders and decoders is the SMPTE ST 2110 Diamond-IP OG Encoder. It supports uncompressed video or JPEG-XS compressed video inputs, and outputs HEVC or H.264 compressed streams.  During […]

Mix & match the best signal processing gear for your video facility with openGear [Webinar replay]

General by Colin Jacques

Want to cut costs while getting better performance? And use one company’s encoder with another company’s fiber card in the same frame? No problem. Your facility, your choices.
On this webinar, you’ll find out how video facilities like yours are mixing and matching the best signal processing gear from openGear manufacturers for specific use cases like live air chains where reliability and latency are big concerns, C-Band going away and what to do about it, hybrid SDI-IP setup for multi-camera cinematic workflows, IP encoding for remote contribution or multi-site applications, and timing reference generation.
You’ll hear from industry leaders AJA, Apantac, Cobalt, MultiDyne, Ross Video, and VITEC as they show you how openGear lets you pick the right tools – regardless of who makes them – from the broadest modular processing platform in the industry.

Easily Scale & Sync 4K Signals With Apantac’s openGear DisplayPort to SDI Scan Converters

General by Colin Jacques

DisplayPort is getting more popular for high-performance broadcast workflows. So Apantac has expanded their openGear lineup to include 2 scan converters that allow you to scale and sync in 4K with DisplayPort to SDI and SDI to DisplayPort. The OG-US-5500-RM and OG-US-6000-RM UHD Bi-directional Universal Scalers with Genlock feature DisplayPort 1.2 and 12G SDI inputs/outputs up to 4096x2160p60. Thomas Tang, […]

AJA’s openGear Card for High-Powered 3G-SDI to HDMI 2.0 Conversion

General by Colin Jacques

If you have one or two sources that need 3G-SDI to HDMI 2.0 conversion for monitoring, Mini-Converters do the job really well. But beyond a few sources, you’re going to start needing serious capability. And that’s where AJA’s OG-Hi5-4K-Plus comes to the rescue. It handles straightforward 3G-SDI to HDMI 2.0 conversion up to 4K/UHD 60p with HDR metadata support. You […]

 MultiDyne’s openGear Cards Simplify Your 2110 or JPEG XS Signal Chain (ISE 2026)

General by Colin Jacques

You can simplify your whole signal chain using MultiDyne’s openGear ecosystem. With the MDoG-6060 series 2110 gateway card, you can take SDI sources and move them directly onto either an ST 2110 or JPEG XS network.  In the same openGear frame, you could install a SilverBack camera system connected to an OG-7800 series fiber transport card, which brings in 4 […]