Kaleidescape, today unveiled the latest version of its proprietary Kaleidescape Entertainment Appliance Operating System (KEAOS 3.5) that provides Owners with more ways to enjoy their movies and music throughout their superyacht. New features include the ability to automatically synchronise music from a Kaleidescape System to iTunes® on a PC, an iPod® or other digital music player; an innovative classical music interface that lets users easily personalise their classical music listening experience; greater data safety in the event of disk drive failure; and new options for sharing personalised movie scripts and favourite scenes with other Kaleidescape users.

The Kaleidescape System provides a compelling and easy-to-use interface able to store and manage large collections of DVD movies and audio CDs, automatically organising movie and music collections and providing a rich descriptive information for most. 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® integration, and capabilities for classical music designed to meet the needs of everyone, from beginning collectors to classical music aficionados.”

So what are the 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 portable 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 to 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.

So how do you get hold of this latest software?
KEAOS 3.5 is available immediately on all new Kaleidescape Systems and will be provided automatically to existing customers in January 2008.


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