Review: Matrox Marvel G450 eTV (Page 5/6)

Posted: May 4, 2001
Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen

DualHead

In case you missed what DualHead is all about, here’s a recap of the technology and what it can do for you.

DualHead Multi-Display

- Set independent resolutions and refresh rates for each display
- Ability to customize refresh rate settings
- DeskNav
- Save desktop icons
- Save windows positions
- Concurrent modes
- Hardware Direct3D acceleration on both screens
- Hardware OpenGL acceleration on both screens
- High-resolutions TV output
- MaxView
- Multi-Desktop
- Support for multiple video streams
Extend one application window across two displays.
View a different application on each display.
Play multi-player games with independent displays for each player (requires game support).

DualHead Zoom

- Ability to set high-quality filtered zoom or pixilated zoom
- Panned Zoom
- DualHead Multi-Zoom
- Application-specific Zoom
- Concurrent Zoom
Zoom any part of the primary display full-screen to the secondary display.

DualHead DVDMax

- Enabled automatically when video is detected
- Playback on secondary display only
- Independent color control
- Concurrent DVDMax
Full-screen independent playback to TV, leaving a fully accessible Windows desktop on the primary display.

DualHead TV Output

Primary display's refresh rate is not locked to the TV's low refresh rate.
TV can be used as a secondary display under Multi-Display mode.
Refresh rates of primary monitor are independent of the TV's refresh rates.

DualHead Clone

Duplicates desktop onto the second display.
Clone screen onto larger TV display for presentations/games.

DualHead SnapShot

Allows user to select any rectangular region and instantly copy to clipboard or create an image without use of third party utilities.

Drivers

Since the Marvel G450 eTV uses the same basic driver set as the regular G450, you can check out the driver section of that review right here. It contains useful information on Matrox’s driver implementation. Matrox has a really good set of drivers that contain many tweakable functions for you to play around with. Some of the graphics settings in Matrox’s drivers are nowhere to be found in the competitions. Kudos to Matrox for well implemented drivers.

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