Matrox Morphis QxT celebrates sweet sixteen

May 8, 2006, Birmingham, United Kingdom - At the IFSEC security solutions trade show, Matrox Imaging is launching the Matrox Morphis QxT, a new addition to the Matrox Morphis frame grabber family. A card with a x4 implementation of PCI Express®, the Morphis QxT features 16 video decoders for simultaneous capture from sixteen independent standard video sources and supports live MPEG-4 compression of all video streams.

Morphis QxT is ideal for video surveillance applications that require simultaneous capture from multiple standard sources. Its high level of integration and standard connections provide additional flexibility and cost savings for video surveillance applications.

The board captures from NTSC, PAL, RS-170 and CCIR video sources, and supports simultaneous acquisition of up to sixteen live video streams. The hardware MPEG-4 engine can perform real-time compression of four full D1 (720 x 480/576) video streams or 16 CIF (352 x 240/288) video streams. Other standard features include 32 TTL auxiliary I/Os, 16 audio inputs, as well as a watchdog timer for automatically recovering from application or system faults.

Software support is available for Microsoft® Windows® XP, and consists of the field-proven, hardware-independent Matrox Imaging Library (MIL)/ActiveMIL or MIL-Lite/ActiveMIL-Lite development toolkits for creating custom applications. Matrox Morphis QxT will be available Q3 2006.

About Matrox Imaging

Established in 1976, Matrox Imaging is a leading designer of PC-based hardware and software for machine vision, image analysis, medical imaging, and video surveillance. Products include frame grabbers, vision processors, imaging platforms, smart cameras, and development software. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Matrox is a privately held company with offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Hong Kong. For more company information, visit: www.matrox.com/imaging/en/about/.

For more information, please contact:

Sarah Sookman
Media Relations Specialist
Matrox Imaging
1055 St. Regis Blvd.
Dorval, Quebec, H9P 2T4
Canada
Telephone: (514) 685-2630 ext. 2753
Fax: (514) 822-6273
imagingmr@matrox.com