OK, here it is! But don´t tell anyone yet.

[Jammrock]

In GDC we are delusional! I am here to break you all of your silly Matrox ways. Nothing will be announced at GDC. You are all fooling yourselves!

Jammrock

[TdB]

i must admit im not yet 100% sure this is fake, can you disbelievers point out the unbelievable stuff, for me ??

[Hyp-X]

Originally posted by TDB
i must admit im not yet 100% sure this is fake, can you disbelievers point out the unbelievable stuff, for me ??

I will tell you in a fortnight, ok?

[Nappe1]

nevermind....

[VJ]

TDB:

Here are the things that make me doubt :
1. It does seem very unlikely to me that M would be able to develop a new kind of display without this leaking out.
2. How do they get enough light from the videocard (what is the lightsource : laser, ...) ? According to the file, the display is connected optically with the card. To my knowledge, there currently is no chip that could provide a sufficiant amount of light to drive an entire display.
3. Isn't it very risky for a company to be the sole manufacturer/developper of a certain piece of hardware ? If it succeeds, than ok, but if it doesn't....
4. There is quite a coincidence between the launch of the Samsung memory chip and the fact that this new Matroxcard would use it...
5. It would mean a huge marketshift for Matrox : from cards to displays (and cards)... Quite often, an established company doesn't make such shifts (or if they do the first acquire another company that has experience in the market they'd like to shift to).

Just my opinion...

Jörg

[borat]

if a company were able to make the display like the one shown for 50 dollars then it would have already happened as it would be way cheaper than anything currently available and as such companies would be rushing to prduce them to get market share. plus why does the light need to come from the graphics card? they would sell way more if it came with its own light as it would be compatible with all graphics cards and thus revenues would increase. plus the costs of putting this optical output on a g.card wuld be hugh. and ohh yeah it would drink an awfull lot of juice from the psu.
having said this however my memory has been jogged that haig once said that the card may need an awfull lot of power with a possible psu connector.but i still dont believe this story on gut instinct.

[TdB]

Originally posted by VJ
TDB:

Here are the things that make me doubt :
1. It does seem very unlikely to me that M would be able to develop a new kind of display without this leaking out.
2. How do they get enough light from the videocard (what is the lightsource : laser, ...) ? According to the file, the display is connected optically with the card. To my knowledge, there currently is no chip that could provide a sufficiant amount of light to drive an entire display.
3. Isn't it very risky for a company to be the sole manufacturer/developper of a certain piece of hardware ? If it succeeds, than ok, but if it doesn't....
4. There is quite a coincidence between the launch of the Samsung memory chip and the fact that this new Matroxcard would use it...
5. It would mean a huge marketshift for Matrox : from cards to displays (and cards)... Quite often, an established company doesn't make such shifts (or if they do the first acquire another company that has experience in the market they'd like to shift to).

Just my opinion...

Jörg

1. headcasting suprised all of us, only one tech-site guessed it, and only few weeks before announcement.

2. my guess would be some very powerfull LEDs, just the other day i saw a prototype LED that used 3 watt and lit like a 50watt lightbulp, and its tiny battery could (suposedly) last almost forever.

3. i think matrox desperately tries to be different from everybody else, you are talking about the company that invented headcasting, renember.

4. i don´t have any answers to that.

5. some of their imaging hardware have displays aswell..., im not sure if matrox makes those displays themselves though.

[NocturnDragon]

Just too good to be true!

[rubank]

Obviously the <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1593&p=3" target="_blank">technology</a> isn´t unheard of, but the M application surely is.

rubank

[TdB]

Just too good to be true!

thats the only thing the worries me.


but again, i was worried about that when the g400 rumors started too.

perhaps the g550 affair has destroyed our faith in rumors.

[TdB]

Originally posted by rubank
Obviously the <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1593&p=3" target="_blank">technology</a> isn´t unheard of, but the M application surely is.

rubank

the cabling is the least of it, i think people have trouble believing the 50$ 20" monitor, i mean it is a completely new monitor technology.

[NocturnDragon]

How could we believe about TALKING HEADS?

But surely there are too many coincidence this time.
1) Samsung memory just annunced
2)Anandtech article kinda recent

But then the light of the sun isn't just as bright as the fiber one? lol

[rubank]

TDB,

what do you think the PRODUCTION cost is for an ordinary flatbed scanner?

Or, for comparison, what do think the prod. cost for a digital camera that retails for, say $500, is? I´d say under $100.


I like this thread

rubank

[borat]

yes u have a point the actual production costs will be low but the r & d is a huge expense and i count this as one of the costs. hence a geeforce 4 which costs only 40 dollars in materials retails for 350 dollars

[TdB]

well, the retail monitor might have a rather high price tag, matrox has always been expensive. but even if they charge say 600$+ for the card+monitor, it will still be a good deal, even though it might be too expensive for alot of people. I would probably buy it, but then again i only have a 17" monitor(a good one though) now.

hehe, it might even be a good idea to sell the combo cheap if you think about it: in the future when people will upgrade from this card they might keep the monitor, that is they have a really good monitor, that requires really REALLY good 2d-quality, and will they find this with the competition?? only time will tell, if you have a really good monitor you get addicted to good 2d.

the best way to make people appreciate the high quality of matrox 2d, is to give them a good monitor.

alot of people will be "forced" to stick with matrox.