If even greater capacity is required, multiple servers can be used. The 3U model’s fourteenth cartridge is a ‘hot spare’, provided for extra protection. The higher-spec model is 3U high and its 14 cartridges basically quadruple the storage capacity of the 1U server. One, which is 1 rack-mount unit (‘1U’) high, contains four cartridge-loaded 2TB drives and can accommodate up to 900 DVDs, 150 Blu-rays, approximately 10,000 CDs or a mix of the three. so that you can easily import new discs into your system as and when they are acquired.Īnd servers? All existing and current models will work, but the newer ones boast the capacities needed to accommodate a decent collection of Blu-ray content. Although the importation service offered by Kaleidescape dealers now caters for Blu-rays as well as CDs and DVDs, it is advised to have at least one M500.
The latter includes an in-built Blu-ray/CD/DVD drive for direct playback and importation. Kaleidescape has two new players that offer Blu-ray compatibility, the compact M300 and the M500 tested here. Everything is built from high-end hardware, and has the same levels of performance that can be expected from top-flight AV gear. One or more players are connected via the network, located in the rooms where playback is required. Your movies and music are copied bit-by-bit and stored on these during the importation process, and RAID-K technology minimises the chance of losing anything in the event of a drive fault. The first is a powerful media server, located in an equipment room or basement, that contains a number of high-capacity hard drives. With the exception of the Mini/Cinema One, a Kaleidescape system consists of two types of component. And now Kaleidescape has added Blu-ray to the mix.
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Although highly expensive and intended for professional installation (bar the one-box Mini, since renamed the Cinema One), there’s nothing to beat its smoothly presented and intuitive method of selecting DVDs and CDs for playback. In previous reviews, I have extolled the virtues of the impressive Kaleidescape networked AV system. Kaleidescape’s market-leading networked playback system now embraces hi-def discs to great effect, as Martin Pipe discovers
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