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Kaleidescape Cinema One entertainment server
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company Kaleidescape is bringing the user experience of its flagship products to a mid-market product it's just introduced called the Cinema One. The Cinema One offers users the ability to store as many as 225 DVDs, a simple children's interface, expansion capabilities for more storage and independent music zones to allow users to listen to music in one zone while another zone watches a movie.
Kaleidescape’s new Cinema One is engineered to enable installers to bridge the gap between retail products like Apple TV and its flagship server systems by offering users a solution that can store up to 225 DVDs and 2,500 CDs. The unit can also accommodate system expansion and it offers independent audio zones to allow for multiroom A/V usage.
A number of years ago Kaleidescape popularized the concept of a living room-based media server product when it introduced its line of media server products, which leveraged commercial IT technologies and a proprietary, easy-to-use interface.
Fast forward to December 2010 and the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company is back at it again. Earlier this month the company introduced its new lower-cost Cinema One entertainment server, which will carry a MSRP of $5,000, and it's designed to provide installers with an out-of-box solution that instantly provides homeowners with a device capable of storing and managing their movie collections.
The Cinema One replaces the company's Mini System and it is capable of storing as many as 225 DVDs or 2,500 CDs. In addition, Kaleidescape says that the system is designed to accommodate family usage through features like the inclusion of a kid's remote control that when used, automatically switches to a simplified interface to enable children to easily navigate their media collections.
Fast forward to December 2010 and the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company is back at it again. Earlier this month the company introduced its new lower-cost Cinema One entertainment server, which will carry a MSRP of $5,000, and it's designed to provide installers with an out-of-box solution that instantly provides homeowners with a device capable of storing and managing their movie collections.
The Cinema One replaces the company's Mini System and it is capable of storing as many as 225 DVDs or 2,500 CDs. In addition, Kaleidescape says that the system is designed to accommodate family usage through features like the inclusion of a kid's remote control that when used, automatically switches to a simplified interface to enable children to easily navigate their media collections.
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Audio · Distributed Audio · Video · Blu-ray · Digital Media · Media Servers · Home Theater · Networking · Retrofit · Kaleidescape · Media Server · Movies · Sunnyvale · Cds · Whole-house Audiovideo · Dvds · Multiroom Audiovideo · Calif. ·About the Author
Robert Archer, Senior Editor, CE Pro
Bob is an audio enthusiast who has written about consumer electronics for various publications within Massachusetts before joining the staff of CE Pro in 2000. Bob is THX Level I certified, and he's also taken classes from the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) and Home Acoustics Alliance (HAA). In addition, he's studied guitar and music theory at Sarrin Music Studios in Wakefield, Mass.
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