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Funny to see Matrox discussed mostly as a piece of PC graphics history, I actually work with Matrox cards almost every day. In the broadcast world they're stil
by fas_tm 1mo ago
Funny to see Matrox discussed mostly as a piece of PC graphics history, I actually work with Matrox cards almost every day.
In the broadcast world they're still very common. X.mio/DSX cards are widely used for professional SDI I/O, video servers and channel-in-a-box systems, and Matrox also has dedicated M264 hardware accelerators for H.264/AVC encoding and decoding.
The current flagship X.mio5 family is basically high-density professional video I/O: 12G-SDI variants for UHD workflows, plus newer 25GbE versions for SMPTE ST 2110/IP environments. Very different market from the old Millennium/G400 days, but Matrox is definitely still around
- Yokolos 1mo agoThat's crazy. Apparently they still have at least 500 employees and make $500 million a year in revenue. Last time I encountered a Matrox was the G400 I had in my PC in 1999. It's no wonder they're talked about in the past tense when they exited the consumer hardware space over 20 years ago.
- fas_tm 1mo agoYou’d be surprised how expensive this stuff is. Current X.mio5/DSX LE5 cards are roughly in the $4–8k+ range depending on configuration, and support/SDK contracts can easily add thousands per year. Broadcast hardware is a very different market from consumer GPUs.
- BirAdam 1mo agoYeah, I have a few lines to that toward the end without going into the other product lines. I focus on computing history, and not on AV.
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- fas_tm 1mo agoAll good, it was an interesting read! I just wanted to add that these days Matrox is a very specialized topic, especially on the broadcast/AV side