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Parhelia: we can influence the marketing
Well, as VigilAnt says, Matrox's marketing way seems to be do throw the dart then draw the dartboard.
So why don't we draw the dartboard for them?
I saw this in action when people here and on the TS forums started talking about 2 monitors + TV out being a possibility. Presumably plenty of people sent in email feature requests to sales. And the next thing we know, it is being touted as a great new feature for a market segment on their homepage.
So what about some more segments for them? It would do us (P owners) all a favour (more features, more support and longevity if the card sells better), and so lets get cracking.
I recently sent them an email requesting the ability to natively support 3 rotated screens (portrait) in the drivers. This would be good for both the financial analysis and publishing sectors as I see it - for layout, documents, data and graphs, IQ is not the whole goal. The right sort of screen real-estate is. So 3 LCDs connected by analogue would be perfect, if they could be in portrait mode.
In fact, the best would be for them to team up with a display manufacturer (and TEST THAT THINGS WORK TOGETHER FIRST!) and co-market. The other company might have more of a clue
Please could others request this feature with sales? The more of us do it (including lurkers!) the more chance of getting it.
Post your feature ideas here and I will reciprocate! Perhaps even those within Matrox that read here can present things internally as their own ideas! (I am pretty sure that this won't be read by any management...)
Cheers
Gnep
So why don't we draw the dartboard for them?
I saw this in action when people here and on the TS forums started talking about 2 monitors + TV out being a possibility. Presumably plenty of people sent in email feature requests to sales. And the next thing we know, it is being touted as a great new feature for a market segment on their homepage.
So what about some more segments for them? It would do us (P owners) all a favour (more features, more support and longevity if the card sells better), and so lets get cracking.
I recently sent them an email requesting the ability to natively support 3 rotated screens (portrait) in the drivers. This would be good for both the financial analysis and publishing sectors as I see it - for layout, documents, data and graphs, IQ is not the whole goal. The right sort of screen real-estate is. So 3 LCDs connected by analogue would be perfect, if they could be in portrait mode.
In fact, the best would be for them to team up with a display manufacturer (and TEST THAT THINGS WORK TOGETHER FIRST!) and co-market. The other company might have more of a clue
Please could others request this feature with sales? The more of us do it (including lurkers!) the more chance of getting it.
Post your feature ideas here and I will reciprocate! Perhaps even those within Matrox that read here can present things internally as their own ideas! (I am pretty sure that this won't be read by any management...)
Cheers
Gnep
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