brucecleveland
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May 23, 2008, 4:40 PM
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Yeah it's a very unique product- I actually owned and used it for a few days before returning it to B&H. The only benefit (sans having built in calibration software, and not being an internal card) is it allows you to use a standard computer monitor to preview HD video. The benefit in this is the fact you don't have to soak up all your desk real-estate with a consumer LCD TV to do this. Plus computer monitors tend to have a higher resolution per inch than consumer LCD counterparts. Just recently did they start releasing 1080p 32" LCD TVs, on the other hand the Dell 24" has been out for eons.
In this case I think Bruce would not benefit from putting out the extra money for the Matrox MXO. He has all the hardware to monitor his HD video right now. Unless, of course he needs to edit on the road from a laptop- however if that was the case I doubt he'll be hauling his LG with him.
Personally I didn't like the MXO. The output monitor, as far as the computer is concerned, is a secondary monitor. I kept loosing my cursor off the edge of my screen- beings as there is no definitive "end" to the monitor I'm editing on, when in reality it's spanning on to the secondary monitor. Additionally all my screen-corner Expose features were negated after I installed the MXO.
Bruce, is there a reason you don't want to use the Intensity? It works great for me and it's only a fraction of the price of the MXO.
Thanks for the imput Glen. It is not that I do not like the Intensity Pro card. I have been outputting via the card with hdmi to the LG monitor. It just doesn't look like the quality on the LG is as good as it should be. Is there something I should be setting up, so I am seeing better quality video?
Bruce
"Always over my head, but not quite deep enough to drown."
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