Media Servers

What's New

Sunfire TGM-100

A media server that offers solid storage at an affordable price.
- By John Sciacca
- Posted November 13, 2009
Key Features $6,500 ($8,950 as tested) SUNFIRE.COM •
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Kaleidescape Mini System

Test Report: Packed with impressive features, there's nothing small about this movie/music system.
- By John Sciacca
- Posted October 21, 2009
Key Features $8,590 KALEIDESCAPE.COM • Movie/music server wi
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Olive's super-sleek new Opus No. 4 music server
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 22, 2009
Olive made waves—well, strong ripples—when it debuted its Opus No. 5 music server a few years ago. The No. 5 was built for serious listeners in a day when most music servers seemed targeted at fans of mainstream artists like Springsteen and Spears. Today the company announced its Opus No.

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Vudu XL2 Internet movie player

Test report
- By John Sciacca
- Posted June 16, 2009
The Short Form $799 / VUDU.COM Snapshot Vud
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Sooloos music storage and server system

Test Report
- By John Sciacca
- Posted February 26, 2009
The Short Form $11,600 / SOOLOOS.COM / 866-606-0333 Snapshot
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Sooloos Ensemble System: MP3 Player on Crack
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 26, 2008
You think your 120GB iPod is hot stuff, right? Think again. Sooloos, maker of high-end home networking and entertainment systems, just announced a lower-cost digital music management / storage / playback system with a terabyte of storage. Lower-cost if you consider $7,900.00 a bargain.

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Serving up Blu-ray
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 27, 2008
With complex processing, Tera-sized storage and slick user interfaces to pull all your movies and music together, movie servers are among the rarest and coolest breed of A/V gear.

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Finally! Something Worth Talking About
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 21, 2008
Sure, iPods, Kaleidescapes and other media servers are great if you’ve got lots of extra energy for all that button pushing. But if your fingers are busy doing other important things or you just really want to veg out and lie around doing nothing more strenuous then breathing, control systems have left you pretty much out in the cold.

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Inteset Adds Blu-ray to Movie Collection Module
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 15, 2008
If you've been using Inteset's Movie Collection to rip and organize your movie collection, today's your lucky day. Well, lucky if you're adding Blu-ray Discs to your collection. Simply insert a Blu-ray (or DVD) and the application will scan the disc and grab information from Inteset's database. Information can also be retrieved by entering UPC code and movie title.

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Media-Go-Round
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 8, 2008
Anyone heading to Japan anytime soon? If so, could you pick up one of these for me? Sony's released two versions of this new VAIO media server, with a whopping 1TB or 1.5TB of storage. Looks kinda like a whopper too.

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Ripserver Lets Your CD drive R.I.P.
- By sandv blog
- Posted March 7, 2008
At first glance, Belfast, Ireland-based Ripfactory's just-released Ripserver looks like nothing more than a $1,400 1-terabyte hard drive. For those not keeping track of digital storage prices, that's about five times too expensive.

But for audiophiles committed to streaming their entire music collections from a PC to high-end speaker system, the Ripserver looks like a time-saver.

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