Hello, are you getting a Marvel?
Jeremy
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From: bill cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: JFW with Matrox G200.
>ask me after monday and i shall have tested this card.
>hj told me that it would work, and the driver should be similar to the 100
g.
>the 100 g card is a a g p bus card, a g p type 1 to be exact.
>it uses s d ram, 8 meg if i remember right.
>and probley is the fastest 2 d only card.
>reason here is that nobody is makeing newer models that are 2 d only.
>matrox millineum 200 g uses faster memory than the 100 g and also faster
than
>the other 200 g models, the mystic and marvel.
>both of those cards are t v versions, the mystic about 140 and the marvel
>about 300.
>the marvel offers video capture, which allows one to hook up a camera or a
v c
>r to the card.
>by the way their all kinds of t v support, for insstance their is t v out
>which can be used by kids playing games on a big screen.
>it could also be used to play d v d movies if the card supports video
>inlaying, which all the matrox 200 g cards do.
>of course another great thing is that the 200 g cards also have an
optional m
>peg 2 decoder card that cost 80 dollars.
>this card can do hardware decompression of d v d movies so one does not
have
>to result to software m peg 2 decompression which slows down the system.
>another advantage is that this card is supposed to not require an
additional
>hardware i r q for the decoder daughter card.
>most d v d kits require installing a seperate m peg 2 decoder card that
uses a
>i r q.
>these new cards should make the seperate decoder card unnecessary.
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>additional t v features
>t v in which could support t v if you use the tuner in a v c r, and the
>ultimate is a t v tuner built right into the card.
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>when you consider that the extra cost of a t v tuner video card exceeds the
>cost of a t v, does it make any sense to spend that much extra, for a
tuner
>that will be exposed to all kinds of electrical interference
>the 200 g millinium does not have any t v features in it.
>also all that i said should be taken with a grain of salt, mainly because i
am
>a total and i am not 100 percent sure what card has what, but this info
should
>provide the user with the ability to ask the right question.
>all the 200 g line has the same 3 d chip set.
>all have 8 meg of s d ram or faster.
>all are a g p 2 x cards.
>all have the optional decoder card, which is not yet available.
>the marvel was so popular that for the first 2 months it was back ordered.
>by the way one review of win 98 did not like the t v features of win 98,
>personally i never used it.
>also of all the dual purpose cards in the market right now, 2 chip sets
stand
>out.
>the matrox, and the new intel video chip set.
>hj usually tries to make sure that their stuff works with the matrox line.
>when i say duel purpose i mean that the cards are better than average
business
>graphics.
>plus they have the very best 3 d video of any duel purpose cards
>the intel chip set is found in many cards, like diamond etc.
>both these cards allow one to play 3 d games at about half the speed of the
3 d
>voodoo 2, which is only a 3 d card .
>by that i mean if you own the voodoo 2 you still need to buy a regular
video
>card.
>that card is the very best 3 d card, so to be honest if you have a child
these
>newer dual purpose cards really are the first cards that can play 3 d
games
>like quake very well
>hope this info is helpful.
>if the cards from matrox measure up to all their claims it should prove to
be
>the very best video card in the market.
>one other point, i said that video capture allows one to hook up a v c r,
what
>i should have said is that it allows a special high end v c r with editing
>capabilities, so the user can clip a single frame from the v c r and store
it
>on the harddrive.
>just wanted to point out that their is a differance between t v in and
video
>capture.
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>bill cameron
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>At 09:44 PM 1/14/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>Hello everyone.
>>I'm still trying a few things with the STB I asked about a few days ago,
but
>>now I'm looking at another card.
>>Has anyone used the Matrox G200 with JFW under win98? Does this card work?
>>The www.hj.com sight says magic does, but they haven't tested it with JFW
>>yet.
>>Also, if the card works, what is it called exactly? I've heard there are
>>different versions of the G200.
>>One more question, there is a TV card version of the Matrox G200, has
anyone
>>tested this one with JFW?
>>The person who will be getting this card is partially sighted.
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>> Thanks much!
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>> Jeremy
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