AJA Io XT & T-Tap

AJA announced new devices today at NAB 2012, the T-Tap and Io XT.

The Io XT is a compact Thunderbolt IO device that allows you to edit HD on your Thunderbolt Mac with inputs and outputs (IO) for HD-SDI and HDMI. You can also loop through your Thunderbolt drives through the Io XT since it has 2 Thunderbolt connections on it.

http://www.aja.com/en/products/io-xt/#/overview

T-Tap is a Thunderbolt output to HD-SDI and HDMI including 3D capable, with embedded 5.1 and 7.1 audio. Smaller than a deck of cards and less than $250. Sounds like a heck of a deal. http://www.aja.com/en/articles/172/   

Video Outputs:

• 1x SDI output
• 1x HDMI v1.3 output (Compressed 3D support)

Supported Formats:

• 8-bit 4:2:2 and 10-bit 4:2:2 in the following formats:
• 525i 29.97
• 625i 25
• 720P 50,59.94,60
• 1080i 25, 29.97, 30
• 1080PsF 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97
• 1080p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97
• 2K 1080p 23.98, 24, 25
• 2K 1080PsF 24, 25