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Calibre
Digital Pictures Gives Thumbs-up
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MONTREAL, April 02, 2003 -- Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com), a developer and provider of high-performance, enterprise-class networked storage solutions, announced today that Calibre Digital Pictures (www.calibredigital.com), a premier postproduction facility in Toronto, Canada, has given Sledgehammer HD!O a big vote of approval. Calibre, whose credits include Veritas: The Quest, Max, The Man Who Saved Christmas, and Ace Lightning, as well as various international TV commercials, has validated Sledgehammer HD!O as the "have-to-have" infrastructure system for digital postproduction. Calibre tested Sledgehammer extensively in its postproduction environment and found its ease-of-use, access speed, and overall efficiencies to be unparalleled. Marc Anthony P. Barrette, IT Director at Calibre, had the following to say about Sledgehammer HD!O: "We've tested a variety of video-enabled gear on the market, and found Sledgehammer HD!O to be the best suited for the realities of postproduction. Sledgehammer HD!O has helped improve our production workflow. With its intuitive, web-based video I/O and playback tools, we finally have a fast, simple way of getting NTSC, PAL, and HD video into a format and location that can be accessed by everyone in our facility. The speed of Sledgehammer HD!O in a network-attached storage (NAS) context has increased our artists' capabilities in accessing data in a timely fashion." "We're extremely pleased to get such a strong vote of confidence from a facility as important as Calibre Digital Pictures," said Michael Hughes. VP, DCC Business Development at Max-T. "It's been our position since we began development on Sledgehammer HD!O that the market has been lacking a system that can bridge the digital video and digital data divide. Once video, either standard definition or high definition, has been digitised, artists and editors need to access that digital data, and at rates that can keep up with the demands of a fast-paced postproduction schedule." Sledgehammer HD!O is a combination of smart software and commodity hardware, optimised for moving digital content at unparalleled speeds onto or off of an IP-based network. Sledgehammer HD!O can consolidate all the storage needs of a postproduction facility, including HD material, regardless of the data sets in use. Sledgehammer HD!O provides, via a web-based interface, real-time SD and HD resolution video I/O capabilities, including the capability of capturing EDL-defined material. And since Sledgehammer HD!O is a true NAS device (in fact the world's fastest NAS), all networked users can access the same data at the same time regardless of the client platforms in use (Windows, UNIX, Linux, Mac, etc.). Unique in the industry, Max-T has no license transfer fees associated with its products. So, as commodity hardware gets faster, so will Sledgehammer HD!O -- with no additional software-related costs. Customers need only purchase their own new hardware at prevailing commodity pricing. About Maximum Throughput Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com) is a networked storage developer whose products deliver SAN level performance over TCP/IP. The company's unique solutions provide many times the storage bandwidth of other NAS and SAN products, using software that runs on industry standard hardware. Maximum Throughput's products offer unparalleled performance, capacity management, and capacity availability, and have the lowest total cost-of-ownership in their class. About Calibre Digital Pictures Calibre Digital Pictures is a leading provider of traditional and digital animation, visual effects, matte painting, and compositing for feature film, television and commercial productions. Based in Toronto with sales offices in Los Angeles, the Emmy-nominated and Gemini award-winning studio services clients internationally. The web site for Calibre is calibredigital.com. For more information, or to book interviews, please contact: Giovanni Tagliamonti Maximum Throughput Inc. (C) Copyright 2001-2003 Maximum Throughput Inc. All rights reserved. Maximum Throughput and the Maximum Throughput logo are registered trademarks and Sledgehammer HD!O is a trademark of Maximum Throughput Inc. in the U.S., Canada, and other countries. All other brand names, products and/or trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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