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Matrox's Extio Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the serious-kvm-solutions dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Matrox isn't as dead as some of us thought. This box of tricks lets you connect four displays up to a PC that's 250 meters away. All the graphic data is sent down a fiber optic cable to the Matrox box that then connects to the screens. To the end user it feels like they're working directly on the PC, but the PC can be locked away somewhere safe."

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  1. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these by slincolne · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A nice, quiet, mediawall without the bulk of the PC's to get in the way.

    These would be so cool for demonstrations and conventions.

    I wonder how many of these cards you could fit in a single computer ?

  2. Math problem nightmare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given the matrox [[1,2],[3,4]], compute the matrox's extio.

  3. Uhm... by suv4x4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like Matrox isn't as dead as some of us thought.

    When was Matrox dead ffs? When Seagate bought them, they were one of the top HDD brands (well, for commodity OEM drives, if not known for amazing quality).

    The fact that half of Matrox's utilities are producing Seagate brand drives doesn't make them dead, does it.

    1. Re:Uhm... by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yea, laugh at me :( "He mixed up Maxtor with Matrox. Idiot!" I deserve it.

      Yeah, mod GP so that more people can laugh at him! Anyway, what's a Men's magazine doing producing fibre-optic monitor extenders?

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    2. Re:Uhm... by Loligo · · Score: 5, Funny

      >Anyway, what's a Men's magazine doing producing fibre-optic monitor extenders?

      Silly me, I was sitting here wondering if he meant the first Maxtor, Reloaded, or Revolution...

        -l

  4. Matrox never went away by _merlin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Matrox never went away completely - they just left the consumer market. They still sell cipsets for connecting very large numbers of monitors to computers. Dual-head is nothing to them - they do eight- and even sixteen-head chipsets. They don't handle games well, but it you just want lots of displays...

    This product doesn't look suited to the consumer market, either. It looks like a solution for airport terminals or something - hide away a PC with one of their multi-head video cards and use this to carry the video to where you want people to see it.