1 BEYOND WINS PRESTIGIOUS PICK HIT AWARD FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW WITH NEW 3817 HD LAPTOP

SOMERVILLE, MASS. (May 2nd, 2005) — 1 Beyond, Inc., a leading provider of digital video editing and compositing systems, is pleased to announce that its new 1 Beyond 3817 HD™ laptop has been awarded Broadcast Engineering magazine’s prestigious Pick Hit Award, the industry’s longest-running new product technology award at NAB 2005. 1 Beyond’s technical innovation has been rewarded for two years in a row, having won a Pick Hit Award in 2004 for its groundbreaking 1 Beyond Harmony HD SAN.

The 1 Beyond 3817 HD™ laptop was demonstrated for the 1st time at NAB 2005 and has since been touted as the industry’s most powerful nonlinear laptop, designed exclusively for editing and graphics applications including HD. It brings video professionals considerably more power than most desktops in a portable, fully featured laptop and is available immediately, starting at $2,695, and fully configured for HD just $5,995.

The Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit awards are the broadcast industry’s longest-running and most-respected new product technology honors, having been awarded for over 20 years. The judges are readers of Broadcast Engineering magazine and working professionals in the broadcast, postproduction, network and satellite industries. To protect the integrity of awards, the judges remain anonymous throughout the evaluation process. Broadcast Engineering’s editors and publishers do not select the products and technology. Winning products must demonstrate a positive impact on the intended user’s everyday work, and must offer substantial improvement over previous technology.

About the Beyond 3817 HD laptop

Optimized for HD editing and delivery (including 720p and 1080i), the 1 Beyond 3817 HD features a number of industry firsts for a laptop, including: up to 3.8 GHz Pentium 4 processor with Hyperthreading technology for dual processor optimized software, up to 4 GB memory and 200 GB of internal storage, eight channels of high definition audio and support for the new high speed PCI express video bus.

With its unique dual bus architecture, the 1 Beyond 3817 HD is also the industry’s first high-end laptop that can support Avid Mojo and external storage simultaneously. This unique ability gives editors access to many more hours of footage than is commonly possible on laptop storage alone and lets them mix HD, HDV, uncompressed SD and DV footage simultaneously.

The fast processor coupled with the 800Mhz front side bus and 2Gb bridge, makes this laptop ideal to run the new generation of software only editing solutions such as Avid Xpress Pro HD and Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as many other processor intensive applications. It allows users to edit both HDV and full resolution HD in real time as well as multiple streams of real time audio and SD and DV video with no lag, delay or skipped frames.

The 3.8 GHz processor also makes the 1 Beyond 3817 HD especially suited for the unique demands of HD productions in the field. This new system allows editors to simply connect popular HD devices such as the Panasonic DVC pro HD or the new HDV cameras from JVC and Sony via the unique dual Firewire ports.

The 1 Beyond 3817 HD can output high quality HD images to its own 17 inch high resolution wide format screen as well as external monitors or HD projectors thanks to its professional DVI video output. Combined with its unique high definition Intel audio subsystem, the 1 Beyond 3817 HD is capable of supporting 5.1 or 7.1 Dolby surround sound and is ideal for presentations of dailies or corporate videos to large audiences.

About 1 Beyond
Founded in 1996, 1 Beyond, Inc. manufactures professional PC-based video editing and compositing systems at a fraction of the cost of traditional high-end systems. This value leadership is due to constant technical innovation including 8 years of industry firsts. 1 Beyond delivers turnkey video systems that provide customers with the highest performance and quality digital workflow in DV, SD and now full 10-bit uncompressed HD. The company offers a wide range of systems including award-winning Laptops, Desktops, Mobiles and Rack mounts used in all phases of editing and compositing. All 1 Beyond’s systems are designed with true open architecture and built on world standards. This insures the customer a continued upgrade path and hence, the longest period for ROI and non-obsolescence. For more information visit www.1Beyond.com.

For further information, please contact:
Véronique Froment
Veronique@highrezpr.com
Tel: 1 603 537 9248