MIRV Media Servers to Feature Blu-ray Disc Drives for Storage andMulti-Point Viewing of 1080p Content.

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08.30.2007 — PRESS RELEASE

Annapolis, Maryland, August 28, 2007 – In yet another coup de grace for the fading HD-DVD camp, Blu-ray Disc has succeeded in wooing Xperinet, Inc., the leader in development of performance IP media networks. Xperinet announced today it will outfit its 2008 line of media servers and clients with Blu-ray drives, further solidifying the format’s dominance over HD-DVD in the marketplace. Scheduled to ship in October, the MIRV (Multiple Independent Replay Video) HD line of media servers will include a Blu-ray ROM drive for loading high-resolution 1080p MPEG-2 and H.264 files.

Xperinet is the first media server appliance to adopt Blu-ray for the custom installation market. Governed by the Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association (CEDIA), this industry represents over 10,000 custom installation companies worldwide and over $12 Billion in electronics installation sales. “Xperinet’s leadership position in media servers for this industry strikes an important win for the Blu-ray camp,” remarked Aaron Chisena, Director of US Sales for Xperinet. “HD content is essential for revealing the capabilities of today’s 1080p displays, and no one wants to search through disks any more to find a movie.” The MIRV system not only stores video content, but also streams movies and music around the home so many users can have access to the same library simultaneously.

Xperinet will debut its Blu-ray enabled systems at the CEDIA trade show in Denver Colorado, September 6-9, 2007. Blu-ray equipped systems will begin shipping in October and an upgrade kit will be available for dealers to outfit existing MIRV servers in the field. Xperinet MIRV is available throughout the US, Europe, and Asia via Xperinet’s network of dealers and distributors.

About Xperinet, Inc.

Xperinet, Inc develops and markets convergence technology products for the Custom Electronics Integration industry. Headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland, Xperinet is committed to making technology usable by all consumers.

While a cool announcement, this PR does not have any impact on the format War. These media servers are so high end that only the richest can afford them.

MIRV In yet another coup de grace for the fading HD-DVD camp...

Enough said.

It would have been good news had the press release been.......oh........REAL.

If you go to Xperinet's website, at least as of this morning, this so-called "press release" was nowhere to be found in their news area, and there is no product listing for this.

I think we need a little more info. Seems to me that it is one of two things. Either it is a server with a BD drive that can rip home movies and a complete nothing as far as the "war" goes or it is a drive that rip BDs to the server and the death of BD as a format. Other than that, I do this crap for a living and have no idea who these guys are. The Naim announcement is a lot cooler.

Xperinet have been around for a couple of years. I think this is a non announcement because while HDs are getting cheaper, it doesn't take that many 50gig Blu-rays to fill up the HD storage. Unless either format is going to be further compressed as it's being ripped it doesn't really make sense to have them on hard drives. It would make more sense to have a 400 disc changer with 2 drive pickups and two outputs fed into a matrix switcher. That would be the equivilent of 20,000 gigs of HD storage at a fraction of the price with almost all the functionality

WHy would someone use discs for this when 1TB HDD's are under $300 now?

Because you aren't just buying a drive. These guys have one of the cheapest hard drive based systems on the market. A 250 movie collection would be 12 terabytes. Call them up and see how much one of their systems with that much storage and 4 clients would cost. It's going to be a lot more than (12*300)=$3600. I bet you are looking at a minimum of $35k.

I think we need a little more info. Seems to me that it is one of two things. Either it is a server with a BD drive that can rip home movies and a complete nothing as far as the "war" goes or it is a drive that rip BDs to the server and the death of BD as a format. Other than that, I do this crap for a living and have no idea who these guys are. The Naim announcement is a lot cooler.Rip BD? Did you forget what BD-R is?

Rip BD? Did you forget what BD-R is?
What are you babbling about?

In rereading everything, it looks like they are adding a BD drive to their clients to replace the DVD drive that is there now. The only people who would purchase their clients are people who have the whole system. In other words I bet they will be lucky to move 300 of these in one year, and even so customers may or may not use the BD functionality. While the system is designed to rip DVDs and store them, it never indicates that they intend to do that for BDs too. This means NOTHING to the format war.
http://www.xperinet.com/clients.htm picture the Orion, but with a BD drive instead of a DVD drive.

I still don't see this hardly professional worded "press release" on their website.

so exactly when did this become real news and not fake?

What a laughable "press release". Sounds like something from some national tabloid.

Michael-
I am on the press release list for CEDIA and that's how I got it (although I wasn't the one to post it here). Is it a real press release? Yes. Does it mean anything when it comes to the format war? No. Like I said earlier, they will be lucky to sell 300 units with BD drives over the course of the next 365 days because it is such a speciality product.

What are you babbling about?You can store anything on BD-R including movie files. BD-ROM drive can read BD-R. No ripping or whatsoever involved :rolleyes:

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