Comments on: Kaleidescape Loses in DVD-Copying Battle, Too

By: tom b

tom b — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:00:14 +0000

“The Betamax case which established fair-use ground rules for copied movies in the first place got all the way to the Supreme Court before Sony (and, indirectly, consumers) scored definitive victory over the studios.”

Hope it doesn’t hit the Supreme Court anytime soon. Under the Bush Supreme Court, “consumers” are simply cannon fodder for foreign “adventures”; they have NO rights (except that created right that isn’t in the Constitution, about individuals bearing arms).

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:35:51 +0000

I have my movies ripped as ISOs, stored in my NAS and streamed across the home via XBMC on original Xboxes. I have my own “poor man’s Kaleidascape.”

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:16:05 +0000

just set up a home media server, rip your dvd’s and distribute to small client pc’s hooked up to tv’s running Media Center in your house. you can setup multiple TV’s and a server with a ton of storage space for less than a quarter of the price of the kaleidascope.

i started this project a few years ago, now I have 2 TV’s hooked up, about 350 movies and over 30 tv shows (every season every episode) and the system is easy enough to use that my wife got it without me giving her any lessons, which says A LOT! about how easy it is to navigate.