RE: Kaleidescape movie server

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

*COUGH* Hmmm ... lemmie see ... even if I bought all the bits for my setup
*NEW* I'd be looking at:

Server, about ?2,000.
Player, about ?200 - 250.

Much of the software is the right price for UKHA_D (i.e. free) and I had to
pay a registration fee of $20 for Zoomplayer plus WinDVD (what? ?50)

Hope it looks pretty for all that extra wonger!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Jones [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 06 January 2004 11:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Kaleidescape movie server
>
>
> 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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