What they are doing at Matrox???

[PAugustin]

That's the RSN chip. (Render Subject Nude)

[Kuriton]

Hi dshumake.

That's a print as PAugustin said.



I complain to Matrox strictly because I love them.v

[dshumake]

I remember when the Parhelia board came out and there was a discussion on what could have gone there. RSN, of course was widely expected. Does this mean you have a beta board and can't talk about the chip itself, or is it something different?

The newer boards, and retail p boards don't have the chip.

dshumake

[DGhost]

Originally posted by dshumake
I remember when the Parhelia board came out and there was a discussion on what could have gone there. RSN, of course was widely expected. Does this mean you have a beta board and can't talk about the chip itself, or is it something different?

The newer boards, and retail p boards don't have the chip.

dshumake

huh? am I the only one that can see that there is no chip on that board?

[schmosef]

It's a bit of an optical illusion. It's just silkscreening.

[Nicram]

schmosef sorry but thjere was a chip, i've got photo with it

[[GDI]Raptor]

It was a chip there on the pre-release boards...

As I have understood from pepole har at the forum with more knowlege of Matrox than me, this chip is one of many feaurures that was suposed to be on the Parhelia, but didn't make it...

Alot of feautures was also broken on the original Parhelia (FAA 16x issues, banding issuues, missing suport for DirectX 9 vertex shader....)

[schmosef]

So what's everyone's take. Is Matrox just milking the P tech while it can and planning to exit the industry or will they ever, like in the next 10 years, come out with something new and current to the standards at the time?

[Wombat]

Parhelia was originally supposed to support some hi-res video transfer. I forget the name, but you can see it on their original feature lists from before the card was released.

[schmosef]

I'm no lawyer, nor am I so unhappy that I'd pursue it, but it seems like so much is missing from the P that there are grounds for a class action law suit.

[DirtFarmer]

Originally posted by schmosef
I'm no lawyer, nor am I so unhappy that I'd pursue it, but it seems like so much is missing from the P that there are grounds for a class action law suit.

good luck with the class action suit, I don't think it would stand up in court. I can remember reading the box on my Matrox XL-Mpeg daughter board (original rainbow runner type product for Millenium 1 ~1996) which had a waiver on the box that read something like "Matrox reserves the right to change product specification... yada yada yada" This board was supposed to do basic video capture but nobody ever got the video capture to perform well, ended up being a "frame grabber" instead. That was my first $300 lesson on purchasing products based on "assumed" features. You get the wallet open, and if your unhappy with the product, take note and don't trust the companie's marketing hype the next time around.

As for Matrox developing a successor to the Parhelia, they will do it on their terms. They are not a publicly traded company and (I beleive) still run by the founders in Montreal, Quebec. No consumer shareholders driving things so they have always done as they please. People have been saying that Matrox has been going down the tubes for some time now, but they're still alive. Busy regurgitating the GPU in products that don't appeal to me, but obviously somebody must be buying them. I just wish one of the big boys would buy them out and implement the Surround Gaming / Triple head technology with a worthy GPU.

[Marshmallowman]

look

http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/video/products/hr256/home.cfm

This one seems to have the extra chip (hr256), looking at the feature list it does say it supports genlocking?

[rylan]

Thats a specialty card for the IBM 'big bertha' 9MP display. Its been out for a while. The 'genlocking' feature is so that when you move windows etc around on the display it doesn't tear... because the way that panel gets driven is as 4 individual display 'strips' on 4 dvi channels.

[spadnos]

I was really bummed a month or so ago. Someone sold one of those IBM T221 displays on eBay for $2050. I would happily have paid $2500 for it, but I had no money.

What a pisser - that display is like the Concorde (It'll be 30 years before it's superceded)

- Steve

[KvHagedorn]

When I want to find out what they are doing at Matrox these days, I just read Dilbert. That's probably pretty close.