Kaleidescape’s just announced another line of high end home entertainment products — this time it’s the M300 and M500 Blu-ray players. The M500 also boasts Blu-ray copying abilities, too — allowing you to import Blu-rays, DVDs and CDs onto your server at home. In an interesting decision, Kaleidescape will require that the physical disc be present for playback from the server — which, you may be thinking, rather defeats the purpose, doesn’t it? Pretty much. Thankfully, Kaleidescape’s got a disc loader in the works which will allow you to keep a “large number” of discs ready in the system for faster loading. The loader itself isn’t expected to be ready for retail until the first half of next year, but you can grab the M300 and the M500 beginning May 18th, with the M300 running $2,495 and the M500 at $3,995. The full press release follows.
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