The Mini System is the first Kaleidescape product to integrate a complete multi-zone Kaleidescape System into a single component, and the first to include a remote control.

Its elegant industrial design is beautifully suited for a living room, and it installs as easily as an ordinary DVD player. Priced about 40% less than the current Kaleidescape System, the Mini System is affordable and well-suited for a variety of projects.

The Mini System can be expanded by adding Players so you can enjoy your entertainment collection in other rooms of your home, by adding Servers to accommodate your growing collection, or by adding other Mini Systems to do both. The Mini System has a movie zone and two additional built-in music zones to provide “whole-house entertainment” out-of-the-box.

Browsing your collection on a Mini System is simple and rewarding. With the press of a button, your movies or music are sorted by title, actor, artist, director, genre, year-of-release or run time. Kaleidescape’s Movie and Music Guide Services automatically cross-reference your entertainment collection to help you rediscover your favorites and share them with family and friends. High-resolution cover art provides an endless panorama to help you quickly identify the movies and music that are “just right” for the occasion.

“The Kaleidescape Experience makes choosing a movie, television show, or album interesting and fun for the entire family,” said Michael Malcolm, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Kaleidescape, Inc. “The frustration of rummaging through discs and mediating between siblings is replaced by leaning back and enjoying your entire entertainment collection with your family. Our customers spend more time being entertained, and ultimately derive more value from the DVDs and CDs they already own.”

“The Kaleidescape Mini System installs quickly and easily, without the need for structured wiring and complex control system programming,” said Brian Hudkins, President of Gramophone, a leading home theater installer in Maryland for over 30 years. “It’s a perfect and complete entertainment solution at a price point that is well within the budget for most of the projects we deliver.”

The Mini System is available immediately at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price starting at $17,495 in Australia, and includes a standard one-year limited warranty.

Known as Dynalite Dimension, the program will provide standardised training, improved access to technical support, and essential marketing support to all accredited companies and individuals.

At the heart of the program will be a standardised educational syllabus to ensure accredited dealers– including AV installers, system integrators and electrical contractors – stay up to date with the latest in Dynalite’s lighting control and building automation technologies.

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Early next year the full bench of the Australian High Court will hand down a ruling that will determine whether Australians will get access to a full EPG service..

If Ice TV win their case, companies like Cisco, Microsoft and HP will start delivering a full EPG service with their media centre and media centre extender offerings.

In the most recent copyright case bought by the Australian Federation against Copyright Theft, who represent several Hollywood Studio’s an academic lawyer at Queensland University says the copyright “test case” against ISP iiNet “stretches” even the widened interpretation of Australian copyright law that resulted from the Sharman (Kazaa) case ­ but hinges on whether the respondents have “responsibility” for ensuring its subscribers do not download pirated material.

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Also being sucked into the fight are Companies like Control 4, AMX, Escient and Crestron all consumer electronics companies that have recently released DVD storage or ripping technology.

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