thanks jeremy for your response
I am working mostly in 1080p pro res hq
I don't have much desk space and also have a little 9" CRT SD monitor
I know I really need to read up on the Aja card
can I output to 2 monitors?
also interestingly I posted this to Matrox forum and got this......
you'll be a happy camper with the MXO2. it just works, and the quality is excellent. all the audio outs is also very handy to have just to drive stereo to a bunch of VTR's, or to do 5.1 monitoring without having to get any extra adapters like SDI audio extractors. I think you'll like just have a metal box with real connectors on it instead of the AJA fan out cable. you also gain HDMI I/O the kona doesn't have which is great for working with all the gear that has those connections now. of course the HDMI out can be adjusted to get better color matching on the LCD being driven by it.
MXO2 also supports closed captioning better then anyone else too right now - both for capture and export.
as for MAX h.264 acceleration, yes that to just works. and works really fast. you will get very spoiled having it, especially if you encode to h.264 based formats everyday. its a quick 15-30 minutes saved everyday ! if you do multiple h.264 encodes, the time savings add up even more. for the few hundred extra, you'll make it back quick enough to not worry about it.
I don't think you'll miss the AJA card at all.
