Mura MPX Editorial Coverage
High-Performance Visualisation
Oilfield TechnologyBy Matrox Graphics
December 2012 Issue
“Imagine running a windowed application for many-to-many communications while running a separate windowed application to see the streaming content being manipulated by a colleague in a different city. Though it could be construed as overly optimistic to hope for no latency issues in such a rich and dynamic context, the configuration is already possible today and group discussion among many experts is definitely already enhanced.”
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Watch the World Unfold on a Video Wall
GeoWorldBy Matrox Graphics
May 2012 Issue
“A modern video wall used in a purpose-built application is something to behold. Whether to control a network of high-speed trains or manage an infrastructure of security cameras, today’s video wall does it all. It can display large maps or computer-based representations of electric power grids or train tracks, overlay information such as weather conditions or stock-market data, and superimpose many different video streams. This is all done in different formats, such as video teleconferencing, satellite television or video cameras, whether analog or digital (and compressed in hundreds of formats when digital). Even a broad mix of media such as simulation content, digital advertising, entertainment and CAD visualizations can appear on a video wall, demonstrating its sheer versatility.”
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Behind the screens
Installation EuropeBy Ian McMurray
April 2012 Issue
“Stability is an immensely valuable but often overlooked characteristic,” says Rob Moodey, sales account manager at Matrox Graphics. “At the end of the day, a video wall which has frozen or ‘bluescreened’ is of no use. Well written graphics drivers are a major contributor to system stability. It’s no co-incidence that Matrox puts so much effort into making its drivers stable.”
“The screen vendor enjoys two main advantages when it comes to selling a controller. The association with their brand values and the simplicity of ordering. But manufacturers like Matrox also have strong brand promise and reputation. The Mura video wall controller boards are standards-based so they allow integrators to select the most appropriate platform to configure best-of-breed solutions and provide simplicity of ordering. Some screen vendors have sought to incorporate Matrox video wall solutions to deliver the highest quality performance to match that of their displays.”
“The Matrox Mura approach can be described as a ‘video wall controller on a card’. By putting multiple inputs, outputs, scalers and compositor functions onto a single card, we have dramatically reduced the number of slots needed whilst at the same time increased the number of Full HD streams that can be simultaneously captured, processed and displayed - without needing to use the ‘tricks’ of reducing frame rate or colour depth.”
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Simulation Training Solutions Spanning Multiple Displays and Technologies
MILITARY TECHNOLOGY (MILTECH)By Matrox Graphics
December 2011 Issue
"In relation to productive group training exercises, video wall controllers can work in conjunction with both KVM extenders and multi-display adapters. One system should serve as the video wall controllers, powered by solutions like Mura MPX Series single-slot, input/output boards, while additional systems can connect to KVM extenders to increase the operational range between each remote, multi-display station and its host system. The end result is a truly collaborative and immersive training environment that emphasizes efficient training practices above all else. Here, the extenders transmit uncompressed digital video in real time from a given multi-display setup for the unhindered evaluation of each student's performance in high-pressure situations. The video wall meanwhile provides the teacher with a big screen on which to easily assess the performance of each trainee."
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The writing’s on the video wall
CCTV Image
By Matrox Graphics
Autumn 2011
“There are video wall controller boards currently on the market that boast multi-functional designs that allow not only for the basic operation of your video wall, but video switching, signal conversion, scaling, and deinterlacing. Whereas in the past multiple devices were required to accomplish each of these tasks, this newfound functional flexibility eliminates the need to seek out additional solutions, resulting in reduced costs and complexity.
Meanwhile, boards that feature both inputs and outputs make life even easier. Traditionally the alternative, installing at least one board for each functionality, forces personnel into dealing with extra hardware that is unnecessary and takes up an increasing amount of a system’s ever-valuable slots. Instead, slots can be converted into additional outputs, thereby increasing the size of a given installation and making for increasingly efficient configurations, with a greater number of high definition video feeds to be displayed leading to more locations under surveillance at once.”
“Cost-effectiveness, reliability, image quality, product life cycles and power consumption all come into play when outfitting a command centre. However, one constant would be the very real need in this day and age to deploy multi-display graphics hardware for the purposes of viewing grid overviews, various camera feeds and alarms all at once, leading to improved efficiency and operator response time.”
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