Kahuna - English
May 2008
Offering breakthrough multiformat performance, Kahuna is the world’s first production switcher to enable simultaneous standard and high definition operations in the same mainframe, on the same control surface.
Powered by Snell & Wilcox’s exclusive FormatFusion signal processing technology, Kahuna breaks the video format barrier enabling seamless real-time mixing of SD and HD video, in any format, without compromise or loss of quality. Designed for live mobile, studio and news production, Kahuna offers a familiar user interface while delivering superior multiformat picture quality in a busy, fast-paced, live production environment. Never before has such advanced and innovative signal processing technology been combined in a single, versatile production switcher.
FormatFusion enables Kahuna to offer total format freedom with any broadcast format for inputs and outputs. Any of the 80 inputs are free to be assigned to be SD or HD with no restriction. Working as a part of each M/E, this provides flexibility to create powerful compositions made up of SD and HD sources, plus provide SD and HD outputs. FormatFusion completely eliminates the need for external conversion boxes. This not only reduces cost and complexity, but results in a low latency infrastructure with significantly fewer timing errors.
