RE: DVD Imerge type product does it exist?

["Stephen Jones" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Mick

It was me who posted a solution last month. From original post -->

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I=92ve only had a quick look at this, but don=92t think it=92s been posted
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to
the group before. It=92s a DVD movie server which streams movies to its
players over a 100baseT cat5 network. I haven=92t seen prices, but I think
we can safely say it=92s a lot more than not a couple of hundred quid. =96

http://www.kaleidescape.com/=20

=93The Kaleidescape Server is the heart of the Kaleidescape System. A
single Kaleidescape Server can store over 400 movies. A cluster of
multiple Kaleidescape Servers can store thousands of movies. Even with
thousands of movies stored in a rack full of Servers, the user still
experiences a single consolidated movie library. The Kaleidescape Server
provides redundant storage for the movie library using hot-swappable
disk drives. This means that no movies are lost if a disk fails, and the
bad disk may be replaced without the need to power down the system.

Connections
- 100BaseT Ethernet port
- RS-232 serial port for connecting to external control systems
Expandable to 3.6 terabytes of storage (based on currently available
disks).

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Then I found the typical costs ->
I've just came across a typical base system cost -- $27,000 !!! And that
gets you a server, 1 movie player and the dvd player. Additional movie
players cost just short of $4000 each !!!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 31 January 2004 00:01
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] DVD Imerge type product does it exist?

Someone posted here about there being such a solution - at $25k for a
basic
server and $4k per player.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: michael.furlong [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 January 2004 23:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] DVD Imerge type product does it exist?
>
> Are there any commercial offerings for ripping DVDs to a central box?
>
> I am thinking of something like the imerge soundservers but for
> DVDs or are the only real options to roll your own or use a mechanical
DVD Jukebox?
>
> Mick=20

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