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1 Beyond Enters European Market with Wide Range of Affordable Editing and Storage Systems (2/9/2006)

1 Beyond, Inc., a leading provider of digital video editing and compositing systems and its storage division 1stDesign today announced their entry into the European market with the industry's widest range of affordable editing and storage systems including award-winning laptops, powerful desktop systems, HD SANs and storage systems, all designed specifically for digital content creation professionals.

1 Beyond, who will be making its public European debut at IBC in Amsterdam, has joined forces with GridIron Software on stand number 7.811. At the show, the company will be looking to expand its network of partners to sell, market and support its entire range of systems across the EMEA region.

"Over the last 10 years, 1 Beyond has developed a reputation for being on the leading edge of technology for the video industry in North America. Our award-winning systems are used in production by broadcasters, corporations and post-production facilities of all sizes, who are looking for scalable, high-performance yet affordable systems that can handle the full range of available video formats. We are very excited by this next phase in our company's history and are looking forward to forging new relationships with selected partners in key markets," comments Terry Cullen, 1 Beyond's CEO and Founder.

1 Beyond and 1stDesign Product Highlights

From laptops.

1 Beyond has the industry's most powerful nonlinear laptop systems designed exclusively for editing and graphics applications including HD. The company's flagship laptop is the 1 Beyond 3817 HDT, designed to offer video professionals considerably more power than most desktops in a portable, fully featured laptop, and starts at EUR 6,095. In addition, the 1 Beyond 3215 LT for less-demanding video applications starts at EUR 2,495.

.to affordable HD workstation

The 1 Beyond Pro HD FlexT line of systems is a powerful yet affordable range of digital nonlinear editing system designed to offer editors HD editing online, all the time affordable 10 bit uncompressed HD editing and compositing as well as real time HDV, SD and DV native formats.. All 1 Beyond Pro HD Flex systems are totally customizable to meet the exact workflow needs and budgets of users. Certified hardware includes BlueFish444, Blackmagic, Matrox Axio and others. Customers can chose different types of chassis (tower, rack, or double-wide), select from a wide range of editing and effects software, including Adobe Production Studio, Alias Maya, Avid Xpress HD, Avid SOFTIMAGE|XSI, Autodesk Combustion, Boris Blue, Canopus Edius, Sony Vegas, Eyeon Digital Fusion, NewTek Lightwave and more. Storage options include up to 10 externally removable drives built into the system and external SCSI, SATA2, Intelligent SATA2, and Fibre Channel. With prices starting at EUR 7,995, the top of the line 1 Beyond HD OctoFlex 8-processor professional video workstation offers superior performance for the most demanding applications.

In conjunction with GridIron Software, 1 Beyond will be demonstrating its "personal" render farm concept for After Effects at IBC. Visitors to the GridIron booth will be able to see the 1 Beyond HD OctoFlex running 8 copies of After Effects at maximum speed, witnessing increased render and preview speeds of up to 800% over the fastest Open HD systems.

.to enterprise level storage at desktop prices

1stDesignT IntelliRaidT line of storage specifically for video applications starts at EUR 3,295 for SCSI-based configurations and EUR 6,495 for Fibre Channel configurations. The top-of-the-line IntelliRaid FC-XPR (Fibre Channel, eXtreme Performance and Reliability) is an enterprise-level storage system, featuring 16 SATA2 drives with RAID 6 protection and dual 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel connections. Starting at EUR 13,095, this latest addition to the IntelliRaid family of systems is designed to offer video professionals unprecedented levels of protection against disk failure without the associated reduced processing performance problems or high costs, making it ideal for high demand environments such as 24/7 production operations.

And even an HD SAN for just EUR 10,195

The award-winning 1stDesign Harmony SAN debuted at NAB 2004 was the industry's first Shared Storage Area Network (SAN) capable of supporting multiple streams of full resolution 10-bit uncompressed HD video. With basic configurations now starting at just EUR 10,195, the 1stDesign Harmony SAN is not only the most powerful shared HD SAN on the market, but the most cost-effective.

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