Custom Resolutions - Matrox Sales is invited to have a peek, too

[Maggi]

Hi Guys,

since the guys from Matrox' Sales Dept. dared to come out of the shade and more or less often visit these halls, I thought it might be an interesting idea to start a poll about which custom resolution would be needed most and which ones would be desired by how many users.

What do you think ?

Please, bare with me if I don't have your custom resolution in that poll, but feel free to post yours if needed.

[cjolley]

Wow, 100% for my choice!
Who'd a thought.
chuck

Edit: It was 1280x960

[Maggi]

I forgot to mention, choose as many option as you need, cause I didn't restrict the poll to just one choice per user.

[afterburn]

I chose 1280x960, but i also want 1440x1080 (4:3)

[SteveC]

Originally posted by afterburn
I chose 1280x960, but i also want 1440x1080 (4:3)

Shouldn't it be 1400 x 1050? That's what some laptop manufacturers use (Dell for one).

[Strahd]

Maggi old girl. How have you been?

[Maggi]

pretty fine, but overly busy ... thanx for asking, old fart

[ALBPM]

1600 x 1024 Please..!!..

Paul

[Dr Mordrid]

My choices;

1280x960

1600x1024

1920x1080

Dr. Mordrid

[FormerEx-SalesSoup]

this thread was a good idea...Matrox is watching.

[Indiana]

I still want to be able to create any custom resolution myself when I find out that I need it.
The ceased support for this is really a bad decision.
With a card of the two currently biggest players (ATI and NVidia) you can at least be sure that you'll get support for this in Powerstrip. ATI also offers a tool for the R8500 that can create custom resolutions.

Since there are people from Matrox Sales looking I'd be VERY curious to hear a logic explanation for the reasons behind this decision.

P.S.: I'm a bit surprised that not even the standard HDTV resolutions are supported. Didn't Matrox always emphasize video/DVD playback.

[UberLord]

Originally posted by SalesSoup
this thread was a good idea...Matrox is watching.

coo .... hopefully they can doing something about it too

[UtwigMU]

Besides IQ and 2D desktop powerdesk features are the primary reason my 3D prophet 2MX sits in it's retail box and my G400 SH 16SGRAM sits in my AGP slot.

- custom resolutions. (try 1280×1024 on 19 or 21" monitor and draw a circle in CorelDraw or download Nokia Monitor Test from reactor critical) either your circles will be elliptical or you will have 2 black bands on each side of your monitor. Some people like 1400×1050 on their 21" monitors, lot's of people like 1280×960 on their 19" monitors.

1280×1024 is less acceptable for DTP and CAD (parhelia's target markets)

Since Matrox cards are more expensive (better quality and support) than competition (price/performance) there is a large chance your customers use big quality monitors

(Count me out I'm siting infront of this POS 17" but my next upgrade will be 2 19" Mitsubishi SBs - hence I bought G400 SH because I was sure by the time I'll have 2 good monitors there will be a better card to drive them)

- enforcing refresh rates. Since I have lenghtened my monitor's cable (2 big desks) Windows 98 won't detect DDC and will not give me 85Hz refresh rate with GF2 MX. Installing back teh G400 fixed it

- Matrox and Pinnacle are big videoediting players. Matrox video suggests G550 or parhelia. Those videoguys just love funky resolutions.

- Even if you never use a feature it's still good to know it's there. (like virtual desktop can be used to enlarge Maya's software render buffer)

[fleabus2]

"Please, bare with me if I don't have your custom resolution in that poll, but feel free to post yours if needed"

I'll bear with you but don't know if I should bare with you

[afterburn]

While they are reading along: fix the memory usage of Powerdesk! I find it insane that a display driver is using almost 18MB of memory. Not everybody is in the luxurious position to have an excessive amount of memory.