VT Voilà version 1.1 brings Universal Binary support and is now compatible with all Intel based Macs.

VT Voilà is a suite of interface enhancements that considerably speeds up user interaction with large (and very large) screen configurations.

VT Voilà is a free Mac OS X utility that you can download here or find bundled with your Village Tronic graphics card installer.

A much-awaited driver update brings full 2D acceleration compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and, most importantly, brings panning back in Mac OS X!

The VT Voilà multi display utility is now bundled in the MPDD Pro OS X installer and is fully aware of panning, tremendously extending its useful applications in a multi display setup.

Both panning and VT Voilà require Panther or Tiger on Mac OS X.

The driver features more fixes and advances for Mac OS X, including better resolution support, better support for vintage displays, faster 2D acceleration in Panther and Tiger, other bug fixes.

You can download the new driver from the MPDD Pro downloads page.

For more information about VT Voila please check out the VT Voilà home page.

VT Voilà is a suite of interface enhancements that considerably speeds up user interaction with large (and very large) screen configurations.
We recognized two main problems the multi display user must face:
Mouse pointer traveling time (and space on desk as a side effect).
Lost items, that can be the mouse pointer or the current task or the next task he wants to switch to.
Moreover, if the user is working on one or more panned screens (even more space available!), another problem may arise:
Some screen real estate is temporarily hidden.
VT Voilà is a simple yet effective solution for these inconveniences. However, we have to admit that there is a major drawback in VT Voilà: it is highly addictive. We have observed customers that, while forced to use other computers, were frantically hitting the VT Voilà hot keys trying to make their cursors jump. Even on single screen systems!

VT Voilà is a free Mac OS X utility that you can download here or find bundled with your Village Tronic graphics card installer.

Hot Plug and Hot Uplug on Windows XP is a reality!

Our driver developers have finally been able to accomplish the impossible: make Windows accept a completely hot pluggable graphics card.

With this release a new VTBopok Gauge application will offer all the needed controls to hot plug and hot unplug your VTBook, adding a little taskbar icon for your convenience. You are now able to plug VTBook while the system is running and uplug it at any moment using the Hot Unplug command. And when you re-plug VTBook, the VTBook screens positions are automatically recalled for you.

Hot plug/unplug is available in both the standard and DualDisplay drivers on Windows XP, other improvements are available for both Windows XP and Windows 2000:

• Improved implementation when reading native display resolutions
• Now the display(s) are correctly powered off for energy saving
• Other small fixes

You can find the complete new feature list here and download the drivers here. As always, please read all documentation before using the drivers.

A completely renewed sales section of this website is online from today! You can access it here.

The new sales pages take a customer-centric approach to make it easier to find where to buy Village Tronic products.

Our commitment is to bring new dealers and distributors to the website, to further ease the Village Tronic's buying experience.

If you have any suggestion to improve our website please let us know!

If you bought one of the first DualDisplay cables in bulk packaging, you are eligible to receive a free VT MultiDisplay license.

Even if the DualDisplay cables in bulk packaging were sold at a discounted price, we think that early adopters of Village Tronic's latest technologies deserve our gratitude and should be able to enjoy the complete VTBook DualDisplay user experience.

To apply for this offer you must do the following:

1) Fill out the Village Tronic's betatester program form that you can find here

2) Send to this address a copy of the invoice reporting the VTBook DualDisplay cable you bought. Any format would do, even a legible picture taken with a digital camera.

You will receive the VT MultiDisplay license key at your email address.

Village Tronic thanks all the people that helped, are helping and will help us in developing better products for.. well.. people like us!

We receive a lot of feedback from Mac users lucky enough to be our customers. Strangely enough, many are writing us to praise our products, in praticular VTBook. And many are asking for new features to further improve their multi display experience.

We called "2.0" this VTBook Mac software release because we think we have addressed many of our VTBook customers' requests. Features like display hot plug and iLife '05 compatibility will please everyone using VTBook on a Mac. Not to mention the thorough compatibility with Tiger.

Here is the complete new feature list for this driver version:

• BIOS (Mac OS X):
  • Added Display Hot Plug and Unplug capability: VTBook can adapt to new display configuration at runtime when the "Detect Displays" system function is triggered.
  • New VGA sensing mechanism implemented
  • Improved implementation when reading display's native resolutions
• OpenGL accelerator (Panther, Tiger):
  • First official release!
  • Added Tiger support
  • Added support for iLife '05 and iWork
  • Bug fixes
• Installer/CD (Mac OS X):
  • Added OS version check for Tiger. New minimum versions are 10.2.8, 10.3.9, 10.4.1
  • Uninstaller updated for Tiger compatibility
• Documentation:
  • Manual and Help updated to version 2.0

As you would expect, we are already working on even better drivers so feel free to come back to the VTBook pages to see if there's something new.

The new drivers can be downloaded here. As always, please read all documentation before using the drivers.

VTBook DualDisplay is now shipping in two different Editions featuring the must-have VT MultiDisplay software utility. Thanks to VTBook DualDisplay and VT MultiDisplay you'll be able to enjoy the most complete multidisplay experience possible on a notebook.

VTBook DualDisplay Mobile Edition is best suited for notebooks that travel between different multidisplay locations. This cable is 16cm (6.3 inch) long and has been designed to offer the most mobile solution possible.

VTBook DualDisplay Stationary Edition is best suited when you have only one multi display setup and you are looking for the best signal quality. This cable is 1.8m (5.9 feet) long and is designed to be directly connected to the displays.

VT MultiDisplay is an extremely useful Windows utility that extends the operating system's multi display support with a wide range of features, including extended window management, smart taskbar, multi display desktop wallpapers and many more. A VT MultiDisplay license is bundled with every VTBook DualDisplay.

For more information please visit the VTBook DualDisplay pages.

Village Tronic and HP teamed up to provide to HP customers the real MultiDisplay power on their notebook workstation.

With an HP docking solution and a Village Tronic VTBook, up to four high-end displays can be connected to most HP notebooks and mobile workstations. State-of-the-art visual workspace is now possible without sacrificing the portable convenience and mobility of notebook PCs.

Read this PDF brochure (143Kb) for more information about how to create such a beautiful setup.

This release improves VTBook support for all kind of notebooks thanks to the new Power Management code, already seen in the standard driver but customized to drive two displays.

VTBook Gauge, the easy-to-use and compelte VTBook configuration utility, is now fully DualDisplay aware and installed by default.

Many little fixes further improve reliability and ease of use.

You can find the complete new feature list here and download the drivers here. As always, please read all documentation before using the drivers.

This release improves VTBook reliability and ease of use in a number of ways: many small fixes improve resolution support, installation procedure and startup reliability with VTBook inserted.

This version improves support for many last generation notebooks. Please check out the VTBook Tested Hardware page for more information about the systems we tested.

You can find the complete new feature list here and download the drivers here. As always, please read all documentation before using the drivers.

This minor release ensures OpenGL compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.8: Apple worked quite a bit on OS X OpenGL and this update was required.

Since we were already working on it, we added some minor bug fixes.

The new drivers can be downloaded here. As always, please read all documentation before using the drivers.

HANOVER, Germany and TAIPEI, Taiwan - January 6, 2005 - Village Tronic and XGI today announced that XGI Technology is starting distribution of Village Tronic’s unique graphics card for notebook computers: VTBook. Primary focus of XGI will be introducing VTBook into corporate key account and first tier manufacturer markets.

“VTBook unique product has been made possible by the advanced power management capabilities of XGI solutions. We are very pleased by this distribution agreement: it is a win-win situation both for XGI sales channel expansion and Village Tronic strategic presence in key market sectors.” – says Hubert Chen, Village Tronic CEO.

“We are thrilled to take Village Tronic’s product into XGI sales channel because VTBook is a great example of a technological challenge won using the most advanced features of XGI products.” – says Ralph Cheng – XGI Worldwide Sales VP.

XGI and Village Tronic jointly show VTBook in a breath-taking, multi-display setup in Las Vegas at CES 2005 (6-9 January, booth 36076). For more information about the Consumer Electronics Show please visit http://www.cesweb.org.

VTBook is a PC Card graphics card featuring a DVI-I video output, dual display capability, 32MB DDR memory, 2D/3D/DVD acceleration and is compatible with Windows, Macintosh and Linux portable systems.

VTBook allows to connect up to two additional external high performing displays to notebook and laptop computers, allowing to use them as real desktop computer replacement in specialized working environments like finance/trading, graphics, CAD and DTP. With VTBook in fact the last frontier of portable system expandability is broken, allowing multiple displays workstation to be built around mobile computers.

Read the full press release...

This drivers release add some advanced features that transform VTBook in the ultimate graphics solution for notebooks.

VTBook now supports Dynamic Resolution Management on Windows too. This means that, in addition to the over 130 predefined resolutions, VTBook can recognize new resolutions and provide the best compatibility with any recent display.

For power users needing the maximum flexibility, this standard VTBook driver now supports Virtual DualDisplay resolutions to use two displays connected to one VTBook thanks to the DualDisplay Cable. Please refer to the DualDisplay Cable page for more information.

Moreover VTBook users will find a brand new application, VTBook Gauge, already installed and ready to control and configure their favorite graphics card.

We also threw in the latest bug fixes, to smooth even further our customer's VTBook experience.

You can find the complete new feature list here and download the drivers here. As always, please read all documentation before using the drivers.

This minor release ensures OpenGL compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.6. Apple's effort on the latest OS X release results in better 3D performance but require this new version of the OpenGL drivers to accelerate VTBook.

We threw into the update also some OpenGL bug fixes: the first official OpenGL release is approaching!

The new drivers can be downloaded here. As always, please read all documentation before using the drivers.

Village Tronic's DualDisplay technology is ready to ship: the final Dual Display solution has been presented in Milan at SMAU 2004, Italy's biggest ICT show.

VTBook DualDisplay allows one VTBook to run up to two external displays, to reach a total of three external displays and a grand total of four displays on one notebook.

This solution has been thought for demanding customers, as traders for example, that need not only a huge display surface but also more than three physically separate displays.
 

Village Tronic's CTO Ascanio Orlandini (standing on the right) and Product Manager Carlo Volpi (enjoying the three external displays) showing VTBook DualDisplay in Milan

The VTBook DualDisplay solution consists of a custom made cable that brings the two video signals to the respective displays and a special driver that, seamlessly integrated with Windows, drives them.
Each display is an independent screen that can be used in desktop extension adding more and more pixels of real screen estate ready to be used by any application.

VTBook DualDisplay solution will be very soon available worldwide at the estimated price of 59USD.

Links:
VTBook: www.villagetronic.com/vtbook/index.html
VTBook DualDisplay: www.villagetronic.com/vtbook/dualdisplay.html

With the due amount of pride the Village Team announces that Europe Commission has selected Village Tronic as one of the 70 nominees for the European IST Prize 2005.

The selection has been made from 430 innovative companies from 29 countries.

The European Information Society Technologies Prize is the most distinguished award for groundbreaking products that represent the best of European innovation, business potential and technical excellence in Information Society Technologies. The European IST Prize is organized the sponsorship and support of the Information Society Technologies Program of the European Commission.

Village Tronic has been recognized as one of the 70 most innovative European companies by having developed VTBook: a very innovative product indeed. And an extremely cute product too, everybody in Village Tronic agrees.

Links are:
http://www.ist-prize.org/
Nominee's list

Thought that VTBook drivers were already good enough? Not quite true: they've just become better!

The new Windows drivers bring to every VTBook user the possibility to connect a compatible HDTV display or television.

We also added many new widescreen resolutions and the predefined resolutions are now more than 170! Whether you are using a VGA monitor, a DVI or ADC digital display or HDTV equipment you are definitely likely to find the resolution you need built in VTBook.

And, as you can see by this growing list, we do implement resolutions needed even by only one customer... and we love to do it.

You can see the new complete resolution list in the VTBook Tech Spec page and the added resolutions listed in the Version History page.

This new driver release also brings updated documentation and fixes an odd and fairly annoying bug: the wake-from-standby issue on low-power notebooks.

The new drivers can be downloaded here. As always, please read all documentation before using the drivers.

The result of a huge effort by our development team, we are proud to deliver a major update to Mac OS drivers. Most of the changes are obviously focused on Mac OS X and on the latest cool applications from Apple.

Here are some highlights:

• OpenGL hardware acceleration for iLife '04, including iPhoto 4 slideshows on every CardBus PowerBook
• Hardware accelerated video for iChatAV
• OpenGL hardware acceleration for Keynote presentations
• Hardware accelerated QuickTime video playback at "Thousands Colors" color depth (even in Final Cut Pro 4!)
• New HDTV predefined resolutions
• New Power Management saves battery life
• New predefined widescreen resolutions
• New OpenGL features implemented
• Complete code reengineering for better speed and reliability under Panther
• Many little bug fixes and improvements

Please note that OpenGL drivers (Mac OS X only) are still considered beta by our very strict quality policy, so to use the full power of these drivers you'll have to perform a custom installation.

The new drivers can be downloaded here. As always, please read all documentation before using the drivers.

Many VTBook customers asked for it and we can finally announce that from today VTBook runs also on Linux!

Our Chief Driver Architect said about this release: "Now it is out there: let's see who's going to try it. And which will be his first request..."
In other words, Village Tronic's team is proud of this new addition to the VTBook capabilities and asks your help in understanding which features must be implemented first in this new driver and in looking for those nasty bugs... so if you're a Linux user and you own a VTBook please follow the indications given in the betatest partner page. and become a VTBook Linux betatester!

The provided binary files need:

In the documentation that comes with the driver you'll find more information to make specific changes to fit your linux configuration.

Don't forget to write to betatest@villagetronic.com for any question or request.