Matrox DualHead2Go Splits Video Signal

This palm sized box, Canadian based company says, will allow users to split the video signal that comes from a laptop or desktop to two separate monitors.

Matrox, a Canadian company which makes video graphic accelerators, earlier this week announced a new device which offers an external way of adding multiple monitor support to compatible laptops and integrated graphics-based desktop PCs. The DualHead2Go is expected to be available shortly for $169.

The DualHead2Go, said Matrox, is a palm-sized box that connects to the existing single monitor output (i.e. external VGA output) of a computer and appears to the system as a single ultra-widescreen monitor with native support for resolutions up to 2560 x 1024. Using the company’s special technology, DualHead2Go splits the 2560 x 1024 Microsoft Windows desktop into a right and left half, each of which is then sent to two separate analog monitors.

Matrox added that by using DualHead2Go in conjunction with the built-in display of a laptop, users can benefit with up to three displays of independent information at a time.

“An increasing number of professionals are using laptops as their main computer, but they still want the advantages of a multi-display workstation while at the office,”said Dan Wood, VP Technical Marketing, Matrox Graphics Inc. “DualHead2Go is a breakthrough product that solves this need by creating a cost-effective, space-saving, multi-display docking station for a laptop. Since DualHead2Go is an external upgrade, it’s also ideal for adding an extra display to a closed, already validated, mission-critical system or to computers with no available expansion slots.”