Colbolt Option +EAS - available on a range of Cobalt Digital products - is the ideal solution for keying Emergency Alert System (EAS) text crawls in the active video and inserting station identification logos.
Serial crawl data from an EAS generator (such as Sage™ or Dasdec™) is transmitted to a Cobalt Digital openGear® card or BBG-1000 series stand-alone unit. The crawl data is held until a GPI is sent from the EAS generator, signaling the creation of the text graphics. The GPI also routes digital or analog emergency audio to the embedded video output. Once the GPI goes back to the resting state, the program audio is routed back to the embedded output. Crawl data is played according to the user-selectable loop counter. User-configurable fill background color and text size control can be correlated to event context severity.