See it right with Matrox Bezel Displacement
Designed for digital signage professionals, Matrox Bezel
Displacement provides image compensation for the physical border of display
bezels. Images on multi-display, stretched desktop setups may look
elongated or disproportioned because the image stops at the end of one screen
and begins on the next. The distortion is caused by the physical space created
by the bezels located between each pair of screens.
Matrox Bezel
Displacement adjusts the display areas so images and text appear to pass behind
the bezels. The feature allows you to adjust the image to compensate for the
physical space between screens created by various bezel sizes.
Avoid distorted multi-display imagery
With this unique-to-Matrox feature, images flow across the displays-providing a more compelling, attractive, and effective message.
Without Matrox Bezel Displacement Portions of the image appear distorted since the bezels separate the actual displays. |
With Matrox Bezel Displacement The additional space between screens is removed, so images flow seamlessly behind the bezels. |
Using Matrox Bezel Displacement
Bezel Displacement is a feature of
Matrox PowerDesk
2.04-SE (and above) display driver software. Once PowerDesk is successfully
installed, you can access the feature by clicking the PowerDesk icon (
) on your Windows taskbar.¹
| 1. | From the Bezel Displacement dialog box, click on the display
to be adjusted. A square appears within the selected display and all effected
displays are highlighted in green. 
Display 4 is selected
for a vertical bezel adjustment. |
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| 2. | Use the adjustment options to increase the vertical and/or
horizontal seams, either in pixels, or as a percentage of the selected display.
As the adjustment is made for particular seam, two diagonal lines move and
adjust to form a perfectly aligned "X".
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| 3. | Monitors come in all shape and sizes, so different displays
require different adjustments. When you are happy with the results, click OK to
accept the changes, and the system is ready to go. Note: In this example, after Bezel Displacement has been adjusted, the new effective resolution is 2650x1626. Content should now be designed for this enlarged resolution, or make sure your application allows content to scale to the new resolution. |
Solutions supporting Matrox Bezel Displacement
The Matrox Bezel Displacement feature is available on the Matrox QID Series add-in graphics cards (QID LP PCIe, QID LP PCI, QID Pro and QID), as well as on the Matrox Extio Remote Graphics Units (Extio F1400 and F1420) upon request². Matrox Bezel Displacement supports landscape display orientation in both nx1 (horizontally aligned) and 2x2 stretched mode configurations.³
Realize your multi-display potential
Get the Bezel Displacement feature now with any Matrox QID or Extio quad display graphics solution. To learn more about this or any of our other multi-display software features for digital signage, contact us at digitalsignage@matrox.com today.
¹ If Bezel Displacement does not
appear in your PowerDesk menu, a firmware update is required to enable the
feature. This utility is available from
Matrox technical support.
² Bezel
Displacement support on Extio Series is available upon request. To make a
request, please contact
digitalsignage@matrox.com.
³ Maximum
Matrox Bezel Displacement for any two adjoining bezels is limited to 25% of a
single displays resolution. For example, in a 2x2 stretched desktop with a
resolution of 1360x768 per display, the maximum horizontal adjustment is
1360x.0.25=340 pixels across the pair of horizontal displays. The maximum
vertical adjustment is 768x0.25=192 pixels across the pair of vertical
displays. Matrox Bezel Displacement is not supported in Pivot mode, 1xn
vertical display alignment or Joined graphics card mode. 1600x1200 resolution
on QID cards is not supported with this feature.
