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Kaleidescape Adds Auto-Importing and Blu-ray Storage

Kaleidescapekaleidescape-kvault-M700-0112 has announced it’s finally shipping the M700 Disc Vault, a server-based system that simplifies the process of adding movies and music to a Kaleidescape system. The M700 works in conjunction with a Kaleidescape 1U Server in a basic system — a more complex system could have multiple servers, players and disc vaults. The M700 serves as both a disc vault and a player in this case. The various components are connected via an Ethernet network. You load discs (Blu-ray, DVD or CD) into the M700 Disc Vault carousel, where their contents are quickly copied bit-for-bit onto the Kaleidescape 1U server, which is connected via Ethernet. This process is fully automated and requires no additional work on the part of the user. Once copied, a Blu-ray Disc must remain in the disc vault to enable playback of the digital copy from the server because of license agreements, but DVDs and CDs may either be ejected or left in the M700 Disc Vault for safe storage and easy accessibility.

The MSRP of the M700 Disc Vault is $6,995 and the MSRP of a Kaleidescape 1U Server with capacity for 150 Blu-ray Discs is $9,995, making the starting system price $16,990.

You can see all the details of the M700 here: http://www.kaleidescape.com/products/disc-vaults/m700/

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