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First-Ever Showing for Xperinet Entertainment Servers at Smart Home Show 2006 (27/2/2006)

Invision UK to showcase Xperinet Entertainment Servers - a breakthrough for the Digital Home - in Birmingham at the Smart Home Show.

The Xperinet System is an easy to control and operate entertainment server which revolutionises the way homeowners can collect and manage their growing DVD collections, and will form the centrepiece of a digital AV home entertainment system

Designed to make your DVD collection easier and more fun to access, the Xperinet Entertainment Server is a dependable, affordable and extremely user-friendly solution. Each movie can be instantly selected by Title, Actor, Director, Genre, censorship rating and year of release, from anywhere in the home. Cover art and movie descriptions are also available on screen.

Invision UK will showcase the Xperinet Entertainment Server at the Smart Home Show (2-5 March 2006, NEC, Birmingham).Visitors to the Invision UK Stand (No. 2507 in Hall 18) will see how this unique entertainment system is designed for quick and easy installation and integration.

"These days even casual viewers find themselves in possession of growing DVD collections. But where does one store that ever-expanding library of DVDs? Running your finger along a shelf full of DVDs is rather old fashioned when we can find any music we want in seconds on our iPods", explained Steve Beahan of Invision, Xperinet's distributor in the UK. "Xperinet Entertainment Servers are changing the way our customers enjoy their DVD collections. The Xperinet System sets the standard for an entertainment server that's very reliable and incredibly easy to use, allowing quick access to your entire movie collection".

There are four different Xperinet models - the Polaris, Trident, Poseidon and Titan. Each differ in their hard drive storage capacities and the number of simultaneous, independent viewing and listening locations they support. The entry-level Polaris, which will feature at the Smart Home Show in Birmingham, has sufficient storage for 250 DVDs (expandable to 350 DVDs) and has a suggested retail price (excluding installation) of £5,950 including VAT.

The other models can provide greater storage, if required, for larger DVD collections. All models stream video and audio content over an Ethernet network to a complementary A/V output decoder - the Taurus Client - for playback. You will need a Taurus Client for each viewing /listening location.

Once installed, there need be no more arguments about what to watch or listen to, as different audio and video programmes can be selected for playback at the same time, at each location the server supports.

The MIRV Server and Taurus Client can be configured via an infra-red control using an onscreen display or an RS-232/IP automation control interface. Interface modules for AMX(tm) and Crestron(tm) are also available.

www.invisionUK.com