Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hi,

I own several TH2Go analogue units and am well aware of advertised and (re)stated limitations of the GMX range.

Having just read the blurb on the Matrox Veos units (like a TH2Go and signal extender together) it raised some questions for me with the TH2Go Digital version.

Not having one to test, or explore what is available in the PowerDesk utility for it, I am putting statements from the Veos up as possibilities.

The Veos suggests it can use the 'Pivot' feature of Powerdesk. It also suggests from the page on supported resolutions that 'Other specified resolutions can be set using PowerDesk'. Has anyone tried this with TH2Go Digital? Is it even exposed in the PowerDesk utility?

Working completely within the bandwidth of TH2Go, if I wanted to run 2160x1280 (3x 720x1280) It looks like the PowerDesk 'pivot' utility could perform this (I know I can just specify the timing in my NVControl Panel to get that res without rotating displays - but not to play ball with GMX). Can anyone confirm it is not present as an option please?

PowerDesk also advertises a 'PowerRes' utility while not explicitly saying that Veos uses it. It doesn't sound that different from custom resolution setting in NVControl Panel but again, to play ball with GMX? Is PowerRes exposed with TH2Go Digital's version of PowerDesk?

If none of these points are possibilities yet I wonder what is next for TH2Go now that Veos has taken it a little further, albeit possibly only by driver control?

Garry

Garry,

First off, let me say I have no knowledge of VEOS other than what I just read for 30 seconds on the Matrox website - it is a digital signage product.

Powerdesk / GMX for the Analogue and Digital TripleHead2Go products offer no form of image rotation, which I beleive is what you mean by "pivot". Monitors connected to a TripleHead2Go must be run in landscape configuration.

Powerdesk / GMX also offer no methods for custom resolutions. You can see in this post all of the resolutions available to use with the Analogue and Digital TripleHead2Go; since these are the only resolutions that can be used, you can see that no portrait monitor resolutions are available and no custom resolutions are available.


I would imagine that Matrox might use capabilities developed for VEOS in the next iteration of their TripleHead2Go product, but VEOS is not a consumer-grade device. It is an industrial product designed for large building applications and I'm sure it has a price to match. It dens video signal via coax cable, not VGA or DVI.

Maybe you'll get better functionality with the Matrox Veos, but you'll also have to buy at least two different devices -- Master Unit & Display Unit, and a coax cable in between them.

In addition, according to this website you're still limited to the maximum resolution of 3840x1024 (3x1280x1024) in three-channel mode, witch is already supported by the Matrox TripleHead2Go:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/multi_channel/veos/resolution/support/resolutions.html