The classic combo of Matrox for 2D and 3Dfx for 3D. Surprisingly Matrox still exists.
Yep, but their cards aren't really consumer. They only do expensive specialized card for multi-monitor output (think serving up 8+ screens at a train station).
I remember seeing computers marketed as having both a "2D accelerator" and a "3D accelerator" -- separate cards. I never had the cash for a Voodoo card back in the day, but I certainly wanted one!
That's nothing, I remember the need for 4, a 2D card, two Voodoo 2s in SLI and a dedicated hardware DVD decoder card :-)
The picture quality was terrible with multiple pass through analog VGA cables...
I used a TV card and hooked my DVD player into it via the antenna cable.
Wasn't that only the Voodoo1/Voodoo2, with the pass through cable? I don't think any other manufacture did that.