[Joe Trepanier]

Hi Chris,

Here’s a few points of what the MXO2 brings that the Decklink HD Extreme doesn’t. It is by no means an exhaustive comparison of the two products but highlights some of the key advantages of the MXO2.

1. Matrox MXO2 works with Mac Pros and MacBook Pros – DeckLink HD Extreme works only with towers.
2. Matrox MXO2 fits in a single PCIe slot – DeckLink HD Extreme occupies 2 slots.
3. Matrox MXO2 is a professional breakout box – DeckLink HD Extreme does not have a breakout box option.
4. Matrox MXO2 offers simultaneous HD and SD output – DeckLink HD Extreme does not.
5. Matrox MXO2 provides direct surround sound monitoring and more audio I/Os – DeckLink HD Extreme supports
only two channels of audio via AES/EBU, XLR, and HDMI.
6. Matrox MXO2 provides 10-bit realtime hardware up/down/cross conversion – DeckLink HD Extreme depends on
your CPU to do all scaling, and “center-cut” aspect ratio conversion is not supported.
7. Matrox MXO2 comes with a 3-year warranty – DeckLink HD Extreme comes with a 1-year warranty.

Joseph Trepanier
Matrox Video Products Group
Product Specialist

[Joe Trepanier]

Hi John,

About needing the extra real estate and having the MXO taking up an extra monitor. One option available to you is the product DualHead2Go from Matrox Graphics Inc.
This unit attachs to the primary head of the graphic card and is seen by the system as a monitor with the ability to do larger resolutions such as 3840×1200 (dual 1920×1200). You can then attach two monitors to the DualHead2Go and be driving both off the primary head leaving the secondary head for the MXO.
With that set up you can have your 2 monitor desktop real estate and the MXO.

cheers,

Joe

Joseph Trepanier
Matrox Video Products Group
Product Specialist

[Joe Trepanier]

True enough. I was just curious since there’s a visual difference between p and psf, but most people wouldn’t notice the difference anyway.

cheers,

Joe

[Joe Trepanier]

Does Blu-ray support 1080p30? I thought it only did 1080p24 and 1080i50/60.

cheers,

Joe

[Joe Trepanier]

Matthew,
What problem did you have with the MXO? What are you monitoring on? Are you located in Europe? I’m assuming yes because you’re working with 25/50.

cheers,

Joe

[Joe Trepanier]

Gunther,
You might also want to check out the Matrox MXO2. It is an I/O box that is very lightweight/portable. Connects to the system via a PCI-express card in a MacPro or via the Express/34 slot on a MacBook Pro.
It does up/down and cross conversion in the hardware and has many inputs and outputs. For a full list I’d suggest going here:
https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo2/

If you have any questions about it just let me know.

cheers,

Joe

Joseph Trepanier
Matrox Video Products Group
Product Specialist

[Joe Trepanier]

You can use the Matrox MXO to output the desktop to SDI, Component, Composite or S-video. It connects to the DVI port of the MacBook Pro and is seen as a monitor by the computer.
So anything you put on that MXO monitor is output to the above mentioned video outputs.
There’s also an ‘anti-flicker’ filter which will remove that jittery problem you make reference too.
As well there’s a region of interest option which will allow you to select a specific region of the screen and have only that region output.

You can check it out here: https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo/

cheers,

Joe

Joseph Trepanier
Matrox Video Products Group
Product Specialist

[Joe Trepanier]

Thanks for making me feel welcome Walter 🙂

There’s been a lot of talk about the MXO2 with uncompressed and with ProRes…I feel I should also point out that it works with more than just those two…because it interfaces with QuickTime, it’s QT that handles the compression/decompression and thus the MXO2 will function with whatever codec QT supports on the particular system that’s being used.

That combined with the calibration utility for HDMI monitors, and it’s light weight make it a very versatile attractive option.

cheers,

Joe

[Joe Trepanier]

Hi guys,
Just so there’s no mis-understanding with regards to what the MXO2 does in hardware and in the host.
It is true that the MXO2 doesn’t do any encoding or decoding in the hardware, that is handled by the host system…all scaling/conversions (up/down and cross) are done in realtime in the hardware.

cheers,

Joe

Joseph Trepanier
Matrox Video Products Group
Product Specialist

[Joe Trepanier]

Just make sure you calibrate your DVI monitor as outlined in the MXO manual and you should have no problems!

cheers,

Joe