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The MP 960 is the most powerful product of Village Tronic. It offers uncompromised functions, just the maximum of speed, resolutions and features. It is the right answer to any working needs: 2D and 3D professionals, multimedia authoring, advanced monitor support, very high demanding game players, and more.

Features

Powerful

Good monitors ask for good video signals to work at their best

• Very high overall resolutions (up to 2032x1524) to match any monitor size and user styles

• Very high overall scan rates (up to 200 Hz) to obtain all the monitor power you paid for

Productive

Some more advanced features will make your daily life much easier

• Screen doubler video modes allow to enhance the work with portrait documents.

• Systems with two or more monitors will boost your production power to previously unreached levels.

Colorful

Good eyes ask for colorful, high resolutions for video quality to appear at its best

• High resolutions in millions of colors (up to 2032 x 1524) will make you feel in an unlimited and colorful world

• No more compromises between a full size ugliness or sliced beauty: have it all, have it in full color

Fun

The fastest graphic card of the Village Tronic production line offers the best 3D experience for advanced gamers

• Glide up to 1600x1200 with double buffering and depth buffer

• QuickDraw3D Rave, full screen or window-related 3D acceleration

• QuickTime YUV and MPEG acceleration, full screen hardware scaler

Healthful

Good eyes ask for protection and care either

• High resolutions at 100 Hz scan rate (up to 1760x1320) will let you to work longer with less visual stresses

• Less eye stress means enhanced concentration and better work quality at less time

• Now you can save time for your personal benefits that may be invested in some sporting or leisure time. Take complete advantage of your new MP 960





Warning:
This product may cause strong dependency


 

Commented specifications

3Dfx graphic processor

One of the most advanced graphic processor currently on the market with all the right features to be the winner

• Voodoo 3-3000 from 3Dfx

• 166 MHz processor clock

• Max. pixelclock of 350 MHz

SGRAM memory

Plenty of memory for space and color freedom, at top speed and without bottlenecks

• 16 MB

• Memory clock of 166 MHz

• 128 bit data path to the graphic processor

PCI slot

The industry standard bus available in every standard Macintosh now on the market

• Both 33 and 66 MHz to take advantage of your computer power

• 7" size to fit in every Mac

Updateable firmware

Hardware easily upgradeable by software to new functions and features by the time being available for new releases of the product

VGA safe mode

This function avoids getting lost with an unusable (blind) monitor

Flexible resolutions

A very long list of supported resolutions to meet every monitor needs (from 12" to 24") and user working style

• From 640x480 to 2032x1524 (see the complete resolutions table)

Multiple scan rates

Each resolution can be enjoyed with a choice of multiple scan rates to get all the monitor power you paid for

• From 50 to 200 Hz (see the complete resolutions table)

Acceleration

Even the best hardware suffers without equivalent software drivers. The MP 960 supports most of the recent and existing standards

• QuickDraw2D for top speed video rendering of DTP and graphic applications

• Glide for a breathless 3D game experience

• QuickDraw3D Rave for a professional 3D CAD real-time rendered object manipulation and realistic gaming experiences

• Open GL acceleration

• QuickTime to accelerate multimedia or full-screen video playback

—YUV

—MPEG

—Hardware scaler

—Video window

Gamma correction

Flexibility to adjust the color levels to match both the user's needs and color calibration systems

Standard video connectors

Industry standard video connectors

• VGA 15 pin HD Sub-D

—Separate syncs

—Composite sync

—VGA-to-Mac adapter compatible (15 pin Sub-D)

—Sync-on-green adapter compatible

• S-VHS Y/C Out

—Enabled only when the MacPablo module is installed

—CVBS compatible through adapter

Advanced modularity

A hardware solution that can grow following your personal needs

• MacPablo analogue video output

—S-VHS (Y/C)

—CVBS (composite) with the provided adapter

—Reduction of flickering effects

—Overscan/underscan

• MacPaloma TV/analogue video input

—RF/Antenna input (audio and video)

—S-VHS (Y/C) input

—CVBS (composite) input

—3x Audio input (for the video soundtrack and Apple sound)

—Still and live video capturing (with no hardware compression)

—4 channel audio mixer


 

Resolutions table

Supported Resolutions

320x 256@ 50 Hz 864x 480@ 75 Hz 1280x 1024@ 160 Hz
512x 384@ 60 Hz 864x 480@ 100 Hz 1280x 1920@ 100 Hz
640x 480@ 60 Hz 1024x 768@ 60 Hz 1440x 1080@ 75 Hz
640x 480@ 67 Hz 1024x 768@ 75 Hz 1440x 1080@ 100 Hz
640x 480@ 73 Hz 1024x 768@ 85 Hz 1600x 1200@ 60 Hz
640x 480@ 75 Hz 1024x 768@ 100 Hz 1600x 1200@ 75 Hz
640x 480@ 85 Hz 1024x 768@ 160 Hz 1600x 1200@ 85 Hz
640x 480@ 100 Hz 1024x 768@ 200 Hz 1600x 1200@ 100 Hz
640x 480@ 160 Hz 1024x 1536@ 75 Hz 1600x 2400@ 85 Hz
640x 480@ 200 Hz 1152x 870@ 75 Hz 1760x 1320@ 75 Hz
640x 512@ 50 Hz 1152x 870@ 100 Hz 1760x 1320@ 100 Hz
640x 870@ 74 Hz 1152x 870@ 160 Hz 1792x 1344@ 75 Hz
640x 960@ 67 Hz 1152x 1740@ 75 Hz 1920x 1080@ 75 Hz
800x 600@ 60 Hz 1280x 720@ 75 Hz 1920x 1080@ 85 Hz
800x 600@ 72 Hz 1280x 720@ 100 Hz 1920x 1200@ 76 Hz
800x 600@ 85 Hz 1280x 960@ 75 Hz 1920x 1440@ 75 Hz
800x 600@ 100 Hz 1280x 960@ 90 Hz 2000x 1124@ 78 Hz
800x 600@ 160 Hz 1280x 960@ 100 Hz 2000x 1250@ 70 Hz
800x 600@ 200 Hz 1280x 1024@ 60 Hz 2032x 1524@ 75 Hz
832x 624@ 75 Hz 1280x 1024@ 75 Hz 2032x 1524@ 78 Hz
832x 624@ 100 Hz 1280x 1024@ 85 Hz  
832x 1248@ 75 Hz 1280x 1024@ 100 Hz  

Legend
  Screen doubler video modes
  Maximum resolution for a given scan rate


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MP760 MP860 MP960
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MP 760 MP 860 MP 960
128 Bit Graphic chip Voodoo 3 - 2000 Voodoo 3 - 2000 Voodoo 3 - 3000
Video memory 8MB SGRAM, 143 MHz 16MB SGRAM, 143 MHz 16MB SGRAM,166 MHz
Maximum pixelclock 300 MHz 300 MHz 350 MHz
Max resolution in millions:      
at 75 Hz 1600 x 1200 1792 x 1344 2032 x 1524
at 100 Hz 1600 x 1200 1600 x 1200 1760 x 1320
3D double + z buffer 1024 x 768 1600 x 1200 1600 x 1200

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