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Matrox Announces New Features for Matrox DSX Developer Platforms at NAB 2006 (23/4/2006)

Matrox Video Products Group today announced the immediate availability of significant new features for the Matrox DSX family of HD and SD video and audio components for OEMs and developers of high performance broadcast products. The Matrox DSX platforms exploit Matrox's "Power of X" and "Flex" technologies to enable OEMs and developers to leverage scalable CPU and GPU power to create a wide variety of cost-effective products and applications including NLE systems, capture/playout servers, clip and still stores, graphics/production servers, automation and master control units, multi-layer compositors, and CATV barker channels. Matrox DSX combines codec and effects technologies and a full range of professional hardware components with a comprehensive Windows XP-based SDK.

New features in release 2.5 of the Matrox DSX SDK include support for pixel-based on-board scaling, pixel-based on-board compositing, advanced GPU effects using third-party graphics cards, realtime software 2D DVE, and a highly efficient MPEG-2 I-frame codec for 4:2:2:4 animation playback.

"For over 15 years Matrox has been supplying digital video solutions to OEMs and developers," said Alain Legault, Matrox vice president of product development. "We currently have over 200 OEMs worldwide in four key product categories - NLE, video server, CG, and clip/still store. Many are already shipping products based on the Matrox DSX platforms and we expect significant new product and feature enhancement announcements to be made at NAB 2006. In fact, the new Matrox Axio LE and Matrox RT.X2 platforms for high performance editing with Adobe Premiere Pro are based on the Matrox DSX technology."

About Matrox DSX

Matrox DSX is a family of HD and SD video and audio components designed to allow OEMs and developers to create a wide variety of cost-effective products and applications including NLE systems, capture/playout servers, character generators, clip and still stores, graphics/production servers, automation and master control units, multi-layer compositors, and CATV barker channels. Matrox DSX combines codec and effects technologies and a full range of professional hardware components with a comprehensive Windows XP-based SDK.

Key features of the Matrox DSX platforms

€ Modular 10-bit architecture gives developers the flexibility to meet technical and price targets € Full range of HD and SD audio and video I/Os € Simultaneous input and output of different video standards in HD and SD € Multi-format SD codec support in software - DV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, D10 (in an MXF file wrapper), MPEG-2, 8 and 10-bit uncompressed

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