Matrox MXO2 Rack Max with Thunderbolt Adapter

The MXO2 Rack with MAX (Thunderbolt) from Matrox is a 2 RU device that's designed to provide all the features of an I/O card in a sturdy breakout box for your equipment rack. It's got connections for both professional audio and video, including an input and output each for HDMI, component video, composite video and Y/C (S-Video); for audio, there's four XLR ins and eight outs as well as four-channel I/O of AES/EBU. In addition, you've got an HD/SD-SDI input and two such outputs. Your options for high-quality audio/video monitoring couldn't be more versatile. And of course, this configuration of MXO2 Rack includes a Thunderbolt adapter, which supplies the blazing-fast connection to a computer for a data transfer rate of up to 10 Gb/s.Designed for Mac laptop and desktop systems with a Thunderbolt port, this model features Matrox MAX, a technology that implements faster than real-time H.264 encoding for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD. It uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web and mobile devices. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished more quickly and system resources are freed up for other tasks. This technology allows direct export to higher-quality H.264 Blu-ray compliant files from Compressor.Along with broadcast-quality audio & HD video input and output, the MXO2 Rack provides calibration controls that include blue-only. Audio monitoring is a strong suit of the unit, as we