AJA Announces KONA LHe

AJA Video, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, today announced the
KONA LHe, a new PCI Express version of the popular KONA LH. Identical in
feature set to the KONA LH released one month ago, the KONA LHe is a 10-bit
uncompressed video capture card that supports editing on the new PCI
Express Apple Power Macs with Final Cut Studio. Reinforcing the company's
commitment to supporting the latest hardware upgrades, AJA is introducing
the KONA LHe as Apple prepares to debut its new PCI Express line of Power
Macs. KONA LHe is the only PCI Express (PCIe) card available for OSX and
Final Cut Studio that provides a cost-effective, single-card HD/SD analog
and digital I/O solution with the superior broadcast quality for which AJA
is known.

"PCI Express is much more than a new interface slot-it is an entirely new
motherboard architecture with dramatically improved bandwidth," commented
John Abt, CEO, AJA Video Systems. "The combination of Apple's incredible
new Power Mac, and AJA's KONA LHe will bring a new level of performance to
desktop digital video."

KONA LHe will ship worldwide on October 31st, 2005, with a list price of
$1790 US. KONA LHe has the same feature set as the KONA LH, but with the
new high-performance PCI Express bus interface for use in Apple's new line
of Power Macs. The KONA LH remains available for non PCI-Express
applications.

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