KRONOS K8 Range

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KRONOS K8: A TITAN OF HIGH-BANDWIDTH I/O

Welcome to the next generation of Bluefish444, with the arrival of the KRONOS K8 range of video, audio, and data processing I/O cards. Built with multi-channel 4K/UHD 60p, High Dynamic Range, and High Frame-Rate SDI for broadcast, production and post-production, the new KRONOS K8 range is ready for anything that you can throw at it.

At a Glance

 

KRONOS K8

KRONOS K8 R

PCIe form-factor

Full-height, half length PCIe

Full-height, half length PCIe

8 independent video channels

 YES

 YES

  1.5G HD-SDI

8

8

3G-SDI COAX

8

4

SFP+ cages

NO

NO

 Full-duplex DMA

YES

YES

4:4:4:4 SDI

YES

YES

4:2:2:4 SDI

YES

YES

Reference In / SPG Out

YES

YES

LTC I/O YES YES
3G bypass relays 4 4
Hardware keyers (2K/HD) 4 4

PCIe x8 Gen3

YES

YES

Thunderbolt-compatible YES YES
NVIDIA GPUDirect

YES

YES

AMD DirectGMA

YES

YES

12/10-bit SDI

YES

YES
12-bit video processing

YES

YES
4 x 4 x 33-bit colour matrix

YES

YES
MR2 Routing Resources

YES

YES
Customisable and flexible pixel format YES YES
VANC complete access YES YES
HANC embedded audio/payload ID/custom packets/RP 188 YES YES

Optional auxiliary I/O via STEM Port
LTC I/O, RS-422, AES audio I/O, analogue audio I/O

YES

YES

 
*Note that features are subject to change at any time.