RE: Kaleidescape movie server

["Stephen Jones" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Don't look now, but 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 !!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Jones [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 January 2004 11:24
To: UK-HA group
Subject: [ukha_d] Kaleidescape movie server

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

http://www.kaleidescape.com/

"The 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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