Hey everyone - we have a shot at asking a matrox representative some questions, ranging from the new G550, to issues, or any other sort of questions you might have. Post them in this thread!

Nobody's interested, eh?

Er....others? If not I'll let this die gracefully. Heh.

YES! From the MatroxUser's Forum:

http://forums.matroxusers.com/ubb/F...TML/010812.html

Ah, yes...MURC. I used to go there ALL THE TIME back when I was debating a new graphics card. The G800 was still "in the works", and I knew in my heart that the G800 would have made me happier than anything from NVIDIA at the time...but alas, I eventually gave up on waiting and bought a 3D Prophet II...

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Please ask them, for me, what they were smoking when they decided to create their HeadCasting technology. I mean, wouldn't it be easier to buy a web cam? Do they really think this is a selling feature or just a new gimmick?

It would be sort of cool, however, to incorporate this into a game such as TFC or the up and coming Sims Online but I don't think that is what they were aiming for.

Easier, perhaps, for you...but businesses have to worry about application/OS compatibility and bandwidth usage. Headcasting takes up less bandwidth than videoconferencing, and doesn't require as much syncing that videoconferencing usually does since it's just uploading audio data. While it may not be very useful for us, it could be a boon for businesses.

And yes, I think those faces look pretty goofy too. But someone had to start somewhere, and I think this is a pretty good start.

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Hello Paul
Just in case no one asks any questions here is a summary from the Murc forums (unedited).

1. The G450 offered good gains in business and home user productivity, and the G550 too with it's somewhat revolutionary HeadCasting technology. You've also developed eDualHead for this sector too, covering the G4x0 and G550 series of cards. Do Matrox plan to target their developments on this area, or also try and show gamers what they've been missing in this area, who've had to make do with the GeForce series of cards?

How is the lawsuit against nVidia progressing??

"Why bother even releasing a new card? It seems as though they could have taken the G450 and added all that 3D head crap to it. They would have named that G450 Special 3D Head edition and be done with it."

)What is Matrox's consideration of the CAD market, specifically video cards like the Quadro2 based Elsa Gloria III. Is it in the scope of Matrox's business to consider marketing a card that is like the Quadro2: decent(ability to play games at 1280x1024x32bit w/ max settings and get 60-70fps) performance when it comes to games(engineers play games too ya know!), stellar 3d modelling performance(specialized drivers for Pro Engineer and AutoCAD?), and muliprocessor SUPPORT. add Matrox's spectacular driver features, dualhead, and their unargueable 2D image clarity superiority. I think we have a winner. This can still be OEM since companies such as DELL sell dual CPU graphics work stations. gateway used to(used a matrox card too.).


hehe. im actually in the market for such a card since my G400Max chokes on just about everything except winamp.

3)what does Matrox see as the wave of the future of video cards for users? BESIDES headcasting.

4)whats Matrox got up its sleeves?

5)was the G550 planned when the G400 was announced and/or released

) is the g550 inteded for mobile purposes as well (most businesses have high speed access, so headcasting would be good for mobile PC with 56K modems)
2) will there be another card annouced this year?

3) will this card be the g800??

4) how fast will it be???

5) what new features will it have????

6) specs (ram, clock rates, new dualhead features, new headcasting features )?????

7) when will it be announced??????

8) when will it be produced???????

9) when will it be shipped????????

10) when will it be available?????????

11) does it exist??????????


When will they be Kings of 3D again?

Any plans to use technologies such as tile-based rendering or HSR?

Regards MDHOME (Murcer)

Thanks Unregistered!

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I had actually just recommended to Paul and Mike that they post a quasi-official thread over at MURC and take a look at what you guys had already. I used to visit MURC all the time back when I was holding out on a GeForce2 in hopes that the G800 would surface...
Thanks for stopping by our community, and we hope to see you more often!

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I think many of us at the MURC would be interested to know what M's policy on future driver support for existing products is. Many of us have bought G400TV and endured beta Win2k drivers only to discover recently that they have produced final drivers that do not support the hardware MJPEG feature of the product which is its primary feature.

So how would it be to buy a G550 for headcasting, only to discover that the final WinXP driver will not support it? It raises a major issue of whether we're buying a bundle of hardware and software that's not going to be supported even though the G400TV is still being sold, or whether we're buying a product that will work on future platforms as they arise. I notice that they bundle Avid Cinema with the G400TV, which is no longer produced by Avid and has zero support.

Is Matrox losing the plot? If so who has picked up the thread?

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Graham Leake

Well, I was one of the guys who was composing some of the questions, and some of the questions certainly made it in (and some of the others I wanted to know myself ) I guess what it boils down to is, we're pretty much done with it, and soon it's time to take the questions to Matrox themselves