AJA KONA LHi - Manual (Page 10)

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KONA LHi Features
The KONA LHi card offers a large number of unique features for optimum quality, ease of
use, and support for a wide variety of workflows and environments. KONA LHi provides
flexible standard definition and high definition capture and playback, a hardware-based
converter for working in mixed SD/HD environments—and it supports both analog and
digital audio/video I/O—including HDMI.
Video I/O: • 10-bit uncompressed QuickTime capture card
• 3G/HD/SD SDI I/O
• HDMI v1.3a w/Deep Color at 30 bits per pixel input/output
• 12-bit SD and HD Analog Component/Composite/S-Video I/O
Conversion: • Broadcast quality hardware-based 10-bit down-conversion
• Broadcast quality hardware based 10-bit up-conversion
• Broadcast quality hardware based 10-bit cross-conversion (1080 to 720 and 720 to
1080)
• Broadcast quality hardware based 10-bit SD aspect ratio conversion (anamorphic to
letterbox, etc.)
Audio I/O: • 2-channel analog balanced XLR audio I/O
• 2-channel AES XLR audio I/O
• 8-channel SDI embedded audio I/O
Signal Timing: • HD/SD genlock on analog video inputs
• LTC Input (on Reference input)
Cabling: • Cables standard
• Optional KLHi-box Breakout Box—provides rack mounting and flexible
easy I/O (KLHi-box cabling is included with the KLHi-box).
KONA LHi Audio: KONA LHi supports 2-channel 24-bit 48kHz or 96kHz AES audio via XLR connections, and
8 channel embedded 24 bit 48kHz audio over HDMI or the same single SDI connection as
the video. If you are using a digital deck—you’ll have the proper connections to the deck.
For analog audio, KONA LHi provides two-channel balanced audio input and output. If
you purchase the optional KLHi-Box breakout box, you also get two-channel unbalanced
audio output (RCA jacks).
KONA LHi also features AES input sample rate conversion; this feature eliminates the
requirement for audio source synchronization. Sample rate converters auto-lock to any
AES or HDMI input, 32-96KHz, and then convert it to 24 bit 48KHz audio, perfectly locked
to internal KONA LHi video. Sample rate conversion is done at very high quality (over
120db THD). (HDMI audio can be 20 to 24 bit and will be saved as 24 bit samples.)