JMR's BlueStor Extender Empowers D-Cinelab's 3D Stereoscopic Services for Feature Films

CHATSWORTH, Calif. and LONDON, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- JMR Electronics, Inc., the leading value provider of scalable storage systems for video and data intensive applications, announced today that UK based Mytherapy D-Cinelab has purchased their BlueStor™ Extender EXTN-8 PCIe based RAID storage system.

Mytherapy D-Cinelab, a company that specializes in 3D stereoscopic color grading and mastering for feature films, chose JMR's storage product to work seamlessly with two streams of 2K stereoscopic feature film workflows. The BlueStor Extender, with 16TB of storage, a split backplane and dual RAID controllers, is being used with the IRADAS-DI grading and mastering system for real time playback, color grading and mastering production.

Mytherapy D-Cinelab had previously used traditional FC RAID storage products as well as other PCIe based products, but rejected them because they were not able to sustain real time playback without dropping frames. "We needed a high performance storage system that would allow us to work on two streams of 2k stereoscopic feature films simultaneously while being easily expandable," said Dado Valentic, CEO and owner of Mytherapy D-Cinelab. "We evaluated a variety of RAID products, but only JMR's BlueStor Extender was able to perform to our expectations without causing the delays associated with other systems that could not meet the sustained throughput rates needed for our workflows. Moreover, we were very impressed that the JMR system was able to achieve this using lower cost enterprise SATA II versus SAS drives, which would have caused capacity problems associated with working with long form feature films rather than short run advertisement work."

"Mytherapy's purchase of our BlueStor Extender RAID system validates the continuing momentum and acceptance from the European creative community of our unique patented PCIe based storage architecture," added Iain Pickthall, JMR's EMEA Sales Manager. "The time and cost savings of seamlessly having the speed and capacity available to work on two full bandwidth streams without delays significantly shortens the time-to-market window. Coupled with the ability to seamlessly scale capacity and performance from a single solution represents an additional benefit to both Mytherapy and their clients, a win-win for all."

"JMR was the first company to not only have a product that could cope with the sustained performance our workflows needed, but was also able to understand our requirements and customize the product's settings to address the special requirements of the stereoscopic industry," concluded Valentic. "We found JMR to be very different to other companies in the level of support they were able to offer us and the robustness of their product. We put the BlueStor system to work immediately where it was used on 'Street Dance 3D' which is being released in May 2010 and a new Chinese version of 'Don Quixote' in 3D which will be released in September. It's become a permanent fixture in our facility where it'll be used in ongoing projects."

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About JMR Electronics, Inc.

JMR is the leading value provider of scalable storage systems for performance, capacity and availability driven applications in the government, rich media, VOD, video surveillance and Web 2.0 markets. As a pioneering leader in high performance RAID storage technologies since 1982, JMR's complete line of BlueStor PeSAN™ DAS, NAS and SAN solutions are ideal for nearly every IT and video production need.  For more information about JMR or the BlueStor product line, visit www.jmr.com or contact the company at 818.993.4801, or [email protected], or contact Iain Pickthall, EMEA Sales Manager, by e-mail at [email protected] or phone at +44 7760 768690.

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