Kaleidescape CinemaScape-CEDIA 2011 DEMO

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Eric Schmidt

CinemaScape, optimizing the viewing experience in 2.35 projection home theaters. Until now, switching between aspect ratios usually required a mode switch and movement of an anamorphic lens. CinemaScape eliminates this disruptive glitch by performing the necessary video processing.

“Now it’s a fluid and seamless experience when I’m exploring my collection of movies,” said Eric Schmidt, Founder and President of Sound and Vision in Willowbrook, IL. “With the Kaleidescape System I can jump around instantly, reliving memorable scenes and watching songs from different concerts, and with CinemaScape the experience is even more spectacular.”

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Kaleidescape App for Ipad-CEDIA 2011 DEMO

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Eric Schmidt

Kaleidescape App for iPad, which introduces an exceptional new way to browse and select movies and music on a Kaleidescape System using an iPad.

The free app offers the convenience of browsing without interrupting playback, so you can guide your guests through the best moments in your collection. For one example, you can filter instantly by actor, director, or genre, so that while friends and family enjoy the famous Dead Parrot sketch, you can select another great John Cleese scene.

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Kaleidescape Scenes-CEDIA 2011 DEMO

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Eric Schmidt

Kaleidescape continued its string of groundbreaking announcements at CEDIA this year with the introduction of Scenes.  This revolutionary new feature of the Kaleidescape System that puts the most memorable moments of your movie collection at your fingertips. Kaleidescape experts have hand-picked more than 4,000 of the funniest, scariest, most action packed and emotionally charged scenes from over 700 of the most popular movies, and more are being added each day. Kaleidescape System owners can now experience their own movies in a completely new way, by scene surfing the movies in their collection. These entertainment “snacks” are perfect for those times when you don’t have two hours to watch an entire movie.

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Breaking news-Kaleidescape 1st to offer Bluray Downloads!

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Eric Schmidt

After months of speculation on what Kaleidescape had up its sleeve, they let the proverbial cat out of the bag today-Bluray downloads from its’ own store! “This is amazing news for our clients with Kaleidescape systems,” said Eric Schmidt. “We have been on the sidelines when it came to streaming and downloadable content. This is largely due to poor quality and limited selection.  Our clients have unbelievably high resolution systems capable of reproducing the true cinematic experience.  While Bluray certainly delivers everything the director intended, it’s really a tragedy to watch any less!” Kaleidescape promises a catalog of content available in the 1st quarter.
Contact us today for more information and a hands on demo of the amazing Kaleidescape system .

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Live Coverage of CEDIA 2011

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Eric Schmidt

CEDIA-Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association annual industry only EXPO kicks off today. Our entire team will be on site to see all the latest and greatest products, attend trainings and workshops and connect with all of our peers in the industry.
We will be live blogging from the show floor bringing CEDIA right to you on our Blog , Twitter, and Facebook. This is the most significant event in our industry for new products and service introductions. We expect a ton of new stuff so stay posted!

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Summer showers bring flowers and ….LIGHTNING!

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Eric Schmidt

With a record number of flooded basements and lighting damage calls Sound & Vision has added additional man power to handle the significant demand.
Please contact us 24/7/365 to speak to a support technician.

We can also recommend and provide preventive measures and early warning systems to insure that these issues are avoiding in the future.
One of the categories that have improved tremendously in recent years is the area of battery backup, power protection and conditioning.
Not only offering significantly better protection but noticeable improvements in both audio and video performance.
Some will even reboot your cable modem automatically when it gets hung up. How cool is that!

Our early warning systems can provide preemptive alerts via e-mail, text and audible warnings. We can monitor many things from: the presence of water, temperature & humidity extremes, power loss, under over voltage, spikes, surges and much more. Further all these elements can be viewed real-time via the web from any connected device, even your iPhone!

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Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault-available now!

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Eric Schmidt

The Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault is now available. Enabling rapid import of Blu-ray Discs, DVDs and CDs, the M700 Disc Vault was designed from the ground up to simplify and accelerate the process of adding movies and music to a Kaleidescape System. Up to 320 discs can be loaded into the M700 Disc Vault’s precision carousel, where they are automatically copied onto the Kaleidescape System, with no additional work required by the user. Once copied, Blu-ray Discs must remain in the disc vault to enable playback of the digital copies.
Contact us today to order your M700 Disc Vault or for more information.

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Spotify-New Streaming Music Service now Available in the US!

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Eric Schmidt

Spotify after several years of streaming dominance in Europe has finally made its way to the US. Having only had a couple of hours using the service I will say that it does sound better than most other similar solutions primarily Rhapsody. With the premium subscription you have access to a 320kbps stream. This is more than twice resolution of Rhapsodies best and 50% better than songs purchased on iTunes. The desktop application is really clean, straightforward and fast. You can also access Spotify on most mobile devices. As with Rhapsody you can download music for offline listening. The claim of everything everywhere might be a bit of a reach. I did a search for the greatest group and my absolute favorite Pink Floyd. The results were pretty poor with only the live album Pulse available. Heck Roger Waters was not even part of this. So is it really Pink Floyd?
Anyway the best part is that we have already have Spotify integrated with our Crestron system at our Design & Experience center. We are in the early stages of testing but will have an official release very soon.
I’ll spend some more time over the next couple days and will report back.

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Our Portfolio is now iPad and iPhone optimized.

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Eric Schmidt


Since Apple mobile devices lack Flash support we needed to come up with a way to view our portfolio in a supported format. The website will detect if you are on an iPad or iPhone and will load an optimized version. Pretty slick if I do say so myself!
Check it out an iPad as it’s the best experience. www.soundandvision.net/portfolio

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