Kaleidescape AV Server Demo

Demo of the Kaleidescape DVD and Music Server

This is the first time that I have seen the Kaleidescape server and interface in action. Very impressive to say the least. I have been running a build your own DVD server for the last few years and enjoy having movies on demand all of the house, but my user interface doesn't come close to what they have achieved.

The following text comes from the Cinenow.com website describing the video....

CEDIA UK'06 : Kaleidescape high-end Audio / Video server

"Kaleidescape, long known as a high-end manufacturer music servers, shows here their new Audio / Video Entertainment server with a 5.5 TB (5,500 GB!!) hard disc that will hold up to approximately 660 DVDs. Need more space, well their largest installation has 7 servers which makes for about a 5000 DVD capacity, and technically is no real limit in the clusters.

Ian Epperson gave us a full demonstration of the easy-to-use menus and high quality user interfaces. There is no limit to the number of interfaces in the house and all are independent. There is touch panel possibility to select a DVD or CD by touching the jacket over and the a program will propose using a presentation of jacket covers in a way to have surrounding the selected title those with a similar theme. There are other features such as touch screen scanning of the film, and more"