VideoForum 2006 - hands-on with Matrox triple-screen laptop box

[Bob Crabtree]

We said in our preview of this week's VideoForum 2006 show that we were greatly looking forward to seeing Matrox's DualHead2Go - a gadget that allows a laptop to run two external monitors (plus the laptop's own screen), to make life easier when working with a typical multi-window video-editing or stills-editing app.

Well, it was one of the first things we checked out and, rather to our surprise, we weren't disappointed, even though we knew in advance that this is really just a clever cludge - the laptop's external connector puts out a single-monitor signal and the Matrox box splits it into two and passes it on.

To feel the quality and see the width for yourself, dive over to this HEXUS.headline where there's a full size (3968x1080 pixels) grab of the three-screen array.