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I always like it when a manufacturer innovates to make something good even better, especially when it's at a competitive price. Such is the case with the new DH-MAX from ProMax Systems. Video Systems readers have heard it many times: With today's nonlinear video and audio editing applications, two computer monitors are the key to many happy hours. Next to buying new and better cables or adding RAM to my computer editing system, the upgrade to dual-monitor display has reaped me the biggest return in productivity.
Until now, Mac users have had to suffer by taking up one of the few PCI slots on the G4 machines in addition to the included ATI monitor card, which uses the Advanced Graphics Protocol (AGP) slot. At the same time, Windows users were paying an arm and a leg for solutions like the Appian Jeronimo card, which costs more than twice as much as the new DH-MAX. But no matter what platform you're using, stretching one application across two monitors or viewing two applications at once is the goal.
The DH-MAX takes that goal a step further. The board allows a wide variety of configurations, not just two RGB monitors. Users can tie together an RGB monitor and an analog flat panel, an RGB and one NTSC/PAL video monitor, or two analog flat panels, etc. It's nice to have options. Just contact the company to make sure your monitor is 100% compatible.
ProMax Systems, working with Montreal-based Matrox Graphics, which makes and markets a PC version, has created the new product in the DH-MAX. This dual-display graphics solution is essentially designed for Power Mac G4 and G4 Cube users. (There have been reports on the 'Net of users getting the board to work with external boxes that have a Mac OS-- compatible AGP slot, but this could not be confirmed at press time.) The DH-- MAX is an AGP-compatible graphics card based on the...