We have successfully delivered solutions in residential, corporate & marine environments without the requirement of skilled local technical support due to having the ability of remote diagnostics and management of systems.

These solutions have been deployed throughout Australia, Papua New Guinea and the United States with minimal resources whilst providing very minimal system failures and downtime.

The concept can be hard to accept when choosing an integrator to provide a solution as it is common for people to want the organisation to have a local presence as a sort of security blanket however the IT industry has been successfully achieving the same result for almost the past decade.

Integrators with a solid IT background are capable of using the same methods and incorporating smart management services within the system design before deployment. Power management, external watchdogs and monitoring have helped increase system reliability and quick fault diagnostics.

It is possible to diagnose issues with systems before the user is even aware of the problem in the first place.

Some manufacturers are now incorporating remote diagnostics internally in their products to not only improve the customer experience but to gather metric data on the reliability of their products to help improve manufacturing design and techniques.

One may consider this as “Big Brother” watching but more often than not there is little personal information, if any that is being supplied. However there is a significant benefit to consumers with the ability to provide a standard operating environment throughout their sites

Ultimately this now provides customers with more choice when they select an organisation to deliver a solution.

Recently we looked into pricing comparisons in Australia and even we were surprised how Kaleidescape was not only cheaper to purchase, but provided far greater value for money!

Now Imerge do produce an audio only server (Imerge Sound Server S2000) which Kaleidescape doesn’t but the new Kaleidescape Mini System provides video as well as audio for only $ 2,800 more!

So let’s look at the comparative pricing:

Imerge S3004B-400 – 4 zones audio only, 400 Gig of storage, No RAID support.  $11,300.00 inc GST

Kaleidescape Mini System with 2 drives – 1 x movie / music zone, 2 x additional audio only zones, 500 Gig of Storage expandable to 1.5 TB, RAID K, additional cascading of mini systems and servers, additional player support up to 15 additional simultaneous movie or music zones.  $14,129.00 inc GST


As you can see, value for money there really is no question that Kaleidescape provides you with flexibility and future proofing of your investment.

Now let’s look at the Imerge Media Servers against the Kaleidescape 1RU Server:

Imerge MS-5000 Media server – 1 x movie zones, 4 x music zones (2 digital only), 3TB storage, RAID 5, non expandable. – $ 29,650.00 inc GST

Kaleidescape 1RU Server with 4 1Tb drives – 3TB of storage, RAID K, Cascade server design
Kaleidescape 1080p Mini player – 1 x Movie zone
Kaleidescape Music player – 4 x Audio zones (both analogue and digital) $ 28,965.00 inc GST

Additional Media players

• Imerge MP-1000 $9,430.00 inc GST

VS.

• Kaleidescape 1080p Movie Player $5,244.00 inc GST

Or

• Kaleidescape 1080p Mini Player (No drive for loading content)  $3,561.00 inc GST

Not only is Kaleidescape cheaper and more flexible on the original purchase, additional media zones can be added at less than half the price of an Imerge Media player!

One of the most important things is that all Kaleidescape platforms are interoperable, something that Imerge haven’t been able to achieve.

Purchase a Mini System with the intent to catalogue your CD collection and maybe a couple of DVD’s. In a year or two you might find that you now have an extensive DVD collection that you wish to add to your Kaleidescape system and it is as easy as adding an additional server or mini players to increase your storage requirements.

Regardless of how many servers or players on your system, to the user it is one big system and dependant on configuration it can store up to 1800 DVD’s or 19,800 CD’s on a single 3RU server and support up to 45 simultaneous zones!

Makes you feel sorry for all those people who bought an Imerge doesn’t it?