The AJA KONA LHi bridges the gap between legacy analog devices and the latest 3Gb SDI and HDMI enabled products providing editing, monitoring and mastering of professional quality video in an affordable, powerful, easy to use product.

Connectivity
If your post-production facility works with a wide variety of formats, frame rates and audio/video sources, the AJA KONA LHi provides the connectivity you need.

Connect everything from an HDMI enabled camera to an HD-SDI VTR to KONA LHi. Connecting to any of your legacy analog video signals is also possible through configurable component, composite, or s-video. Via an Input PassThrough mode, you can even configure the card to act as a converter within your computer.

KONA LHi offers a full host of no-compromise features: 10-bit or 8-bit uncompressed video, 2-channel AES digital audio and 8-channel SDI embedded digital audio, analog composite or s-video or SD/HD component video I/O, 2-channel balanced analog audio I/O, and broadcast-quality hardware-based up/down/crossconversion for flexible SD and HD post production.

KONA LHi's HDMI 1.3a support allows you to feed a "deep colour" monitor with glorious 10-bit video, banishing video banding and preserving your gradients and rich colour palate. Only KONA LHi delivers this 10-bit deep colour state-of-the-art HDMI support.

Broadcast-quality conversions
Like the AJA KONA 3 product, the KONA LHi features full 10-bit, broadcast-quality, motion-adaptive SD to HD up-conversion, HD to HD crossconversion, HD to SD down-conversion, and automatic HD/SD 12-bit component analog output. Since KONA LHi's conversions are hardware-based, they are available all the time - during ingest or playback. Outputs can be configured independently allowing you to have simultaneous HD and SD output - or two different types of HD - 720 or 1080 - output at the same time via cross-conversion.

Key Features:-

• 3G/HD/SD SDI input/output
  
• HDMI v1.3a w/Deep Colour at 30 bits per pixel input/output
  
• 12-bit HD analog component input/output
  
• 12-bit SD analog component, composite, or S-Video input/output
  
• 10-bit Hardware-based realtime up/down/cross-conversions
  
• 2-ch balanced XLR AES digital audio and 2-ch balanced XLR analog audio input/output
  
• 8-ch SDI embedded audio input/output
  
• HD/SD Genlock and RS-422 machine control
  
• LTC Input (on Reference input)
  
• Breakout cables standard, affordable breakout box optional