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Matrox has long been hailed as the industry leader in 2D performance and image quality; and when the G400 MAX was released about three years ago, the company also boasted some impressive 3D performance as well. But since that time, Matrox has seen more and more of its support from the gaming community slip into the hands of the competition namely 3DFX and NVIDIA (and now just the latter of the two ).
This probably doesnt come as much of a surprise since the These are core hasnt undergone any sweeping changes since the G200. Whether this is a conscious business decision or the result of other circumstances is impossible to say for sure, but my guess is that the lack of 3D performance is no mishap.
If you look at the consumer-level video card market, each of the major companies has created its own: NVIDIA has cornered 3D gaming performance, ATI has the jack of all trades/master of none thing going on, and Matrox is sitting pretty in the business and power user arenas relying on its superior image quality (most notably at higher resolutions), excellent 2D performance (again, especially at higher resolutions), and let us not forget the uber cool DualHead technology. By not entering into the FPS race, Matrox has been able to keep development and production costs low which further increases the value and attractiveness of the G line. For these reasons (as well as a few others, including the availability of TV in/out on the Marvel models), the G550 and its predecessors are the ideal choice where productivity is paramount.
Ideal assuming the G550 lives up to the greatness that its older siblings achieved -- but I guess thats why Im here :] .
One aspect of Matrox that is often overlooked is the fact that they also produce some wickedly powerful (and expensive) cards designed for professional-quality, realtime video editing and post-production. They have also been in the industry since the 70s so theyve been around the (video card) block a few times.
Shall we?
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Now I'm no computer genius, but I do have a Leadtek Gef2 MX dual head and I AM able to run two monitors in different resolutions and refresh rates. Though the second monitor output islimited to a resolution of 1280 something with a refresh rate of 70 hrz...that is the only limitation that I know of within the Leadtek Dual head card.
At around $1000 this is not too bad of a product, $1800 will get you the Pinnacle DC2000 which is a much less buggy product. $1600 will get you the Canopus DVStorm with MPEG1/2 daughter card - this is actually the best thing on the market by far.
Just thought I would comment since my lively hood is building turnkey DV editing workstations.
Thanks for the info. I am more into the digital audio end of computing but am thoroughly interested in the DV aspect as well. Does your company have a website? Can I pick your brain for info? :]
You sure do like a crack dealer, dgrant. You sure do. Who knows where Redemption recruits his underlings these days?
On a related note, I tried to create a digimask for my dog. But alas there were "rendering errors", proving yet again that dogs are, in fact, not humans. Who knew?