MONTREAL — Nov. 16, 2011 — Matrox(R) Video Products Group today announced the appointment of Japan Material Co. Ltd. as the exclusive distributor of its end-user products in Japan. Japan Material will represent the full line of Matrox video products, including the popular Matrox MXO2(TM) I/O devices, the new Mojito(TM) MAX(TM) I/O card, the Convert(TM) DVI scan converter, and the MC-100 SDI-to-HDMI mini converter.

“It is important to Matrox to have a strong partner in Japan to provide sales and service assistance to our customers,” said Mingkai Yang, Matrox director of sales, Asia-Pacific. “We are very happy to welcome Japan Material as our sole distributor for channel products and have every confidence that the company’s considerable experience and expertise will enable us to grow our business together.”

“Over the past 10 years, we have had a successful partnership with Matrox Graphics Inc., providing computer graphics solutions for the Japanese market,” said Yoshi Sakaguchi, general manager of Graphics Solution division at Japan Material Co. Ltd. “We look forward to the new challenge of working with Matrox Video Products Group to strengthen the Matrox brand among Japanese broadcasters, post-production facilities, and A/V integrators.”

Matrox and Japan Material will be partnering at InterBEE 2011 to demonstrate Matrox video products on stand 5510.

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About Matrox Matrox Video Products Group is a technology and market leader in the field of HD and SD digital video hardware and software for accelerated H.264 encoding, realtime editing, audio/video input/output, DVD/Blu-ray authoring, streaming, A/V signal conversion, capture/playout servers, clip/still stores and CGs. Matrox’s Emmy award-winning technology powers a full range of content creation and delivery platforms used by broadcasters, post-production facilities, project studios, corporate communicators and videographers worldwide. Founded in 1976, Matrox is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada. For more information visit www.matrox.com/video.

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