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Kaleidescape unveils KEAOS 3.5 with more ways to personalise home entertainment (27/11/2007)

Stand K63, Integrated Systems Europe 2008

New KEAOS 3.5 Includes iTunes Compatibility, Classical Music Support, Greater Reliability and Additional Personalisation Options

At the forthcoming ISE (Integrated Systems Europe) event Kaleidescape, Inc., the market leader in entertainment servers, will unveil the latest version of its proprietary Kaleidescape Entertainment Appliance Operating System (KEAOS 3.5) that provides Kaleidescape owners more ways to enjoy their movies and music throughout their homes. New features include the ability to automatically synchronize music from a Kaleidescape System to iTunes(r) on a PC, an iPod(r) or other digital music player; an innovative classical music interface that lets users easily personalize their classical music listening experience; greater data safety in the event of disk drive failure; and new options for sharing personalized movie scripts and favorite scenes with other Kaleidescape users.

Kaleidescape products have changed the way movies and music are collected and enjoyed throughout the home or yacht. The Kaleidescape System provides a compelling and easy-to-use interface, and can store and manage large collections of DVD movies and audio CDs. It automatically organises movie and music collections and provides rich descriptive information for most DVDs and CDs. Once movies and music are stored on the Kaleidescape System, they can be enjoyed instantly in any Kaleidescape Player-equipped room.

"We are dedicated to providing our customers with new capabilities that make the home entertainment experience more rewarding," said Michael Malcolm, founder, chairman and CEO of Kaleidescape. "The features in KEAOS 3.5 provide Kaleidescape owners with even more flexibility and choice, such as the ability to take their valued music collections on the go through our new iTunes(r) integration, and capabilities for classical music designed to meet the needs of everyone, from beginning collectors to classical music aficionados."

Features and Benefits of the New KEAOS Version 3.5

Kaleidescape Conductor for Music

Kaleidescape Conductor, a small Windows program, allows users to choose a collection of any or all of their Kaleidescape-stored music content to enjoy on their PC in the iTunes music application program, or take on the go in their iPod portable music player or other digital music player. Conductor automatically keeps the selected collection synchronised with iTunes on the users' PC. Once in iTunes, the content can be managed as it normally would, including synchronisation to an iPod.

User-defined Music Collections

User-defined Music Collections have been added to allow users to organise their music in any way they desire. Collections can contain albums, artists, genres, mix albums (playlists) or any combination thereof and can be titled as chosen by the user. For example, a user might create "My favorite College Albums and Artists" or "Exercise Albums." Artists and genres in collections automatically update when matching content is added or removed from the Kaleidescape System.

Classical Music Interface

Classical music collectors tend to organise their classical collections differently than other varieties of music, as classical music is composer-oriented. With Kaleidescape's new Classical Music Interface, users are provided views of their collections that uniquely benefit the classical music genre. The new Music Collections included with this feature are "Classical Composers" and "Classical Works." The "Classical Composers" collection lists all of the composers of the classical music found on a Kaleidescape System and enables the user to view biographic information about each composer, as well as the works by each composer that are present on the System. The "Classical Works" collection displays all classical compositions on the System and provides a means to see and play any or all performances of a specific work.

Greater Disk Protection

This enhancement increases the reliability of restoring the contents of a failed disk using RAID-K. This enhancement reduces the probability of a double-disk failure which can result in the loss of data.

Import and Export of Scripts

Movie scripts developed by Kaleidescape owners can now be exported from one System and imported on another, including embedded favourite scenes. This feature enables users to share their favourite scripts with one another, or between their own Kaleidescape Servers if installed in multiple locations. The feature will also allow Kaleidescape dealers to share scripts with their customers.

Availability

KEAOS 3.5 is available immediately on all new Kaleidescape Systems. It will be provided automatically to existing customers in January 2008.

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