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$4300 Kaleidescape 1080p DVD Streamer Reviewed (Still Not Real HD)

Sound & Vision gave a gushing review to the Kaleidescape 1080p player, a DVD upscaler that streams movies from a home server for the price of a nice used car. They especially liked the Gennum VXP video processor chip, which upscales DVD content to vividly sharp 1080p detail, with very accurate colors and high contrast. The Kaleidescape's updated ability to play content without importing it to the server first was also a big draw. But seriously, $4300? Come on. More »

10:41 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Benny Goldman
2,914 views, 6 comments

Latest by Midda: "Blu-ray looks the same as DVD on a standard definition TV" Quote of the day. more »

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000

If you're rich enough to have a dedicated media server from the likes of Crestron, Elan, Escient, Kaleidescape, ReQuest or Apple—a strange one to mix in, I thought—you can go off and buy Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time already ripped and encoded on a NAS RAID drive, for the low price of $9,000, thanks to a company called Terra-San. I can see several problems with this: More »

9:30 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Wilson Rothman
13,561 views, 35 comments