Preview on external PAL TV monitor

I have a PAL TV monitor connected to the 'video out' connector on a Matrox BOB.
With 1.5 Encore release it was possible to simultaneously preview Menus, time line and monitors windows on the TV monitor.
With 2.0 release the Menu windows is splashed on the TV monitor but no video is displayed on the TV when we launch the preview comand.
So it's difficult to appreciate colors, hidden borders, ....
Do I miss something ? Excuse my poor english ! hope you'll understand.
Thank you in advance

Hi,
This is what Matrox told
For the new Encore, the WYSIWYG still works for the menu's when your creating and editing them, but that is it. You no longer get the timeline preview and playback of the project.
As far as Matrox dropping it, it was not by their choice. It was Adobe's doing. They changed the preview engine in Encore and that is what doesn't allow the WYSIWYG to work. So it wasn't a choice by the "M".
I will say that if you want to complain, please do complain to Adobe and request for them to make the engine directshow so the WYSIWYG will still be supported in a round about way in possible future versions of Encore. I find for self the Wysiwyg one of the most valuable tools for the X card, and me personally I was very, very dissapointed that this was no longer functional as even though in 1.5.1 of Encore, the controls and crispness weren't there so to speak as in 2.0, the output was a definite "tide-over".
So Adobe, when will you fix this problem? At the start of Matrox 100 there was a close togetherness between Matrox and Adobe, selling their products. I liked the possibility to look at the endproduct on a external monitor in stead of a small and not so good monitor on the PC.
Chris

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