1/27/2012 06:16:00 PM
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Matrox used to be quite a player on the graphics card market back in its time, but NVIDIA and ATI (now AMD) left it behind eventually, so the company focused on specialized video solutions instead.
One of its special-purpose products is the Matrox Mura MPX, a series of video wall controller boards aimed at the business/enterprise sector.
Essentially, the Mura MPX input/output boards receive video signals from up to four sources and then “combine” them into a single image that ends up spread across four different displays.
Matrox designed the Mura MPX a while ago but has now issued a new announcement about them.
Basically, the video wall controllers have received HDCP compatibility, which means that high-definition video signals can now be received from HDCP sources.
“Guaranteeing interoperability when integrating and installing a high definition multimedia system is a challenging task for AV professionals. Adding HDCP support enables AV integrators with more options and flexibility when bringing HDCP content to video walls,” said Helgi Sigurdsson, product manager, Matrox Graphics Inc.
“With an HDCP compliant card that uniquely integrates four HD graphics outputs and four HD video capture channels, building a video wall processor has never been easier.”
The greatest advantage of the four-panel controller boards is that up to six of them can be linked together, enabling video walls of up to 24 panels.
The PCI Express x16 Gen2 technology grants each Mura card a bandwidth of 64 Gbps (duplex data transfer), making even Full HD smooth, for multiple sources at once.
As such, corporate boardrooms, large venue events, digital signage, mission-critical environments and auditoriums are just a few of the applications where Mura MPX can show their worth.
The new Matrox Mura MPX Series 2.01 driver supporting HDCP will be released in March, 2012.
For those who don't know what HDCP is, it is an encrypted protocol used between video sources and video receivers.
Its role is to prevent unauthorized access to protected content, meaning that Matrox' products couldn't ccess HDCP-enabled set-top boxes, Blu-ray disks, video streamers or digital cable.
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