User guide

20 Matrox Graphics Card – User Guide
Software setup
If a TV or video recorder is connected to the second monitor connector on your Matrox graphics card,
you can use TV output mode to view or record your display on your TV or video recorder. (To
connect video devices to your computer, see page 17.)
TV settings have lower resolutions and refresh rates than typical computer monitor settings. Lower
refresh rates may result in more noticeable flicker.
Windows 98/2000 – To add a TV to your Windows desktop, see “DualHead Multi-Display
setup”, page 7.
Windows 95/98/2000 or NT 4.0 – To use TV output, you can use the
DualHead Clone
,
DualHead Zoom
, or
DualHead DVDMax
*
features (see “Other DualHead features”, page 9).
Windows 95/98/2000 – To adjust TV settings, access the Matrox PowerDesk
DualHead
property sheet (see “Accessing PowerDesk property sheets”, page 6). To adjust advanced
desktop TV settings, click
Desktop TV Settings
. To adjust advanced DVDMax TV settings,
click
DVDMax TV Settings
.
Windows NT 4.0 – To adjust TV settings, click
"
Programs
"
Matrox PowerDesk
NT
"
Matrox Display Properties
"
Monitor
. To adjust advanced TV settings, click
Advanced
TV Settings
.
For more information on how you can use your secondary display, see Matrox PowerDesk
online help.
Note: Two TV standards are supported for TV output. The NTSC standard is used in North
America and Japan, among other places. The PAL standard is used in most of Western
Europe and in China, among other places.
If an incorrect TV standard is selected in Matrox software, the output from your computer
may not appear or record properly on your TV or your video recorder. To find out what
standard your TV or video recorder supports, see its documentation.
* Under Windows NT 4.0, the DualHead DVDMax feature isn’t supported.
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