Price:

$1,669.00
inc GST

Matrox G200 MMS Solution
The Matrox G200 Multi-Monitor Series features either two or four MGA-G200 processors and 8 MB of powerful SGRAM per controller. But, unlike many competitive solutions on the market, the Matrox G200 MMS supports either Dual or Quad analog or DVI PanelLink® outputs. It also uses a high speed 250 MHz RAMDAC to ensure flicker-free displays, and supports true 24-bit color at resolutions as high as 1920 x 1200 per display. Under Windows® NT, Windows® 98, Windows®2000 or Linux, you can use one Matrox G200 MMS card to run up to four monitors, four DVI® based digital flat panels or a combination of the two.
Equally important though, is the choice to include other multimedia functionality on the Matrox G200 MMS video card, such as a TV tuner with support for all major worldwide TV standards or video input/capture capabilities. Matrox also engineers the most reliable drivers in the industry. In addition to supporting all major operating systems, we offer unified driver support for our full range of products. In addition, the Matrox PowerDesk Multi-Monitor desktop management software helps control application windows and dialog boxes for a more robust and efficient multi-monitor setup.

Software Features
Of course, with two or four monitors users will also need special Windows utilities to prevent menus and dialog boxes from appearing in the middle of two monitors, and to save settings for each monitor display. Included with the Matrox G200 Multi-Monitor video card are a number of useful desktop management utilities.

CenterPOP Up for repositioning dialog boxes in the middle of one screen
MAXView for maximizing the application to fit within one monitor or across the entire desktop
Child Window View for handling multiple windows (like spreadsheets) within an application
SnapApp to prevent you from placing an application across two screens.
Boot to single display
Virtual Desktop flips allows each screen to flip between two full-sized desktops (one hidden and one visible), essentially doubling desktop size
Saved Application Positions for returning to the same application display setup each time you reboot your system.
A unified driver that will work with any combination of Matrox G400 based products which ensures a site has to qualify only one driver for any Matrox card
Up to four cards in one system for up to 16 monitor output

Application Areas
The use of two and four monitors is also prevalent in public safety control stations, hospitals, factory automation, hospitality and retail promotions, video editing and video wall displays, industrial displays and CAD displays.

Point of Purchase (POP) Point of Sales (POS)
Due to the huge drop in price and superior flexibility over customized solutions, POP and POS configurations are beginning to use regular PCs, making it an ideal market for multi-monitor solutions. For example, a POS system can now have one display for the cash register operator, and a separate one for the customer.

Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing and Engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE)
The majority of today’s products are created on computers. Engineers use dual and quad monitors to see computer drawings in multiple views, to access many control panels and commands quickly, and to view different sources of information.

Software Programmers
Software programmers create and debug complicated applications. With quad monitors, they can have the application on one screen, a debugger on the second, a programming editor on the third and an on-line reference manual on the fourth.

Remote displays
Many computer displays are built into walls and windows to display information (such as interest rates at a bank or advertisements at a large department store.) The system that controls these displays is usually located on the other side of the wall or in another room, where another master display shows a mirrored image. This master system can sometimes control more than one remote display, which another situation where the multi-monitor solution comes into play.

Desktop Publishing
Digital publishing is created with an interactive combination of applications – a graphics application creates graphics for use in a page layout program, for example. With more than one monitor, designers can quickly reference and switch between applications.

Video Editing
Digital video editing is another market that has long known the advantages of multiple monitors. Video editors keep a cut/edit list on one monitor and video output on the other. Edits, cut and pastes, transitions, etc… are all easier to accomplish with two or more displays running beside each other.

Video Conferencing
With a video stream, an interactive white board, and shared applications, video conferencing applications cannot be used comfortably with only one monitor. Having two monitors is the optimal solution for desktop video conferencing.

Digital Imaging
Computers are increasingly being used to analyze, manipulate, communicate and store images in document, scientific, medical, and automated imaging applications. Imaging engineers use applications that require the large display areas provided by two or four monitors to access images and data.

Network Administrators
Most network administrators and workers require more than one monitor to view the constant display of real-time information coming in from the network. They would also be slot limited since they could have more than one network card in a system.

General Business Applications
General business applications can also benefit from the use of dual or quad monitor support. Users keep e-mail open to alert them of new mail and are often connected to the Internet or an on-line research service. With true multi tasking operations, more users are able to use multiple applications at once – for example, a word processor to write a proposal and a spreadsheet to work on the proposal’s budget.

Technical Specifications

Configurations allow for 2 or 4 G200 128 bit dual bus graphics chips for dual or quad analog
Integrated 250 MHz RAMDAC
Multiple cards can be installed allowing for one system to run up to 16 displays
Fully PCI 2.1 complaint through the DEC 21152 PCI-PCI bridge
8MB of high speed SGRAM memory per chip
Certified Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Linux drivers
Maximum resolution per chip 1920x1200
Support for Dual or Quad Analog or DVI PanelLink® output
Option to assembly boards with a TV Tuner part to capture NTSC and PAL TV signals through a coaxial cable input on the bracket
With a TV tuner on board users have the ability to capture composite video.* TV audio data is sent to the system's sound card through an internal audio pass through cable to connect to the soundboard's CD audio port. The CD audio cable will connect to the Matrox TV audio cable
One or two custom dual VGA cables connect to one or two LFH-60 connectors on the board. One custom cable to incorporate dual VGA and composite video input connectors
Option to connect, through an internal ribbon cable, to a separate PCI RR G series card for Video capture (composite and Y/C), TV output, HW video compression and decompression and TV Tuner (cannot be used if the multi display board already has a TV Tuner built on)
FCC class A and B certification
CE Mark A and B
VCCI certification
Short 8" board
5 year warranty