On 23 Apr 2003, at 22:38, Mike Kauspedas wrote:

>     I have heard that Matrox is the King of Video editing, I know they
> cost an arm and a leg so that says to me it must be good. I've only
> installed one and it was $1k just for the vid card. I don't doubt their
> reputation precedes them, but as I don't deal with a whole lot of hard
> core video editors I don't know much about matrox. For the rest of us ATI
> seems to get the job done.

  Matrox does do a lot of business in the video editting market, true.  But
the G-series AGP video cards -- G100, G200, G400/450/550 -- are all consumer-
market products with prices in the $100-$200 range.  (One doesn't
(primarily) judge GM sedans by looking at their GMC truck line....)
  Matrox has pretty much retreated from the consumer market, leaving it to
ATI and nVidia.  But when they were in the market, they made competitive
cards WITH DRIVER SUPPORT SECOND TO NONE.  If you can still find any of
these cards, and you don't need to go toe-to-toe with Radeon and GeForce on
3D graphics, then they're a great deal.

David Gillett

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