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The Kaleidoscopic Dance Of The Inkjet Printer

Dan Nosowitz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0000

It probably isn’t the most environmentally-friendly idea, but we love this stop-motion video of a bunch of HP printers busting out some sweet paper-and-ink patterns to an electro soundtrack. Check it out, you’ll like it. [Vimeo via Crunchgear]

Kaleidescape Video Servers to Rip Blu-Ray in 2009

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:59:03 +0000

Kaleidescape, famous for their super-high-end home theater video server, has officially announced that they are going Blu-Ray in 2009, releasing a player that will integrate with their existing rip-to-HD equipment. Good news for the generation of Silicon Valley richies who currently use Kaleidescape plus 5 Netflix accounts to continuously catalog DVDs. Here’s their upgrade path.

There won’t be HD DVD support, although they “reserve the right to revisit that decision based on traction in the marketplace.” In other words, no HD DVD. Ever. [Kaleidescape Owners Forum]

DVD Copying on the Chopping Block

Seamus Byrne — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:30:08 +0000

Fair use? What’s that? It’s something you’ll someday be telling your kids once existed at the rate things are going. That’s because there’s a proposed amendment to current copy protection licenses that would ban any and all DVD copying, including for fair use.

Want to rip your DVDs to a Media Center PC so you can watch movies without putting a disc in? Too bad. Anything other than watching a movie right off the disc would be against the rules, much to the chagrin of companies such as Kaleidoscope, who make media centers loaded to the gills with (perfectly legal) movies. Well, at least this has been put up to a vote twice before only to fail, so there’s hope that a third strike is imminent. –Adam Frucci

Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying [PC Mag]