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We reported back in April that the KAT5 Mark2 designs were finished and starting production in a new plant in the UK. As of this morning the units are now on sale. More details in the press release below...

"Laser Business Systems announce Strategic Alliance with Indigo Electronics for KAT5 products

LONDON - 1st August 2005 - Laser Business Systems are delighted to announce an exclusive manufacturing and distribution alliance with Indigo Electronics. Laser will now manufacture and distribute the KAT5 products under licence.

The KAT5 range of affordable audio/video modules allow the transmission of high quality signals over the CAT5 cables that are being fitted in many new housing developments and bespoke smart homes...

"Olive introduces Symphony - Wireless digital music center goes HiFi for $899 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - July 28th 2005 - Olive Media Products, Inc., a developer of innovative digital audio systems, today announced the Symphony, a wireless digital music center designed for true audiophiles. Olive Symphony is based on the popular idea of a central device that stores, manages and wirelessly distributes digital music throughout the home, but is engineered as a true HiFi component. High fidelity sound is achieved through Olive's Digital Pure Audio (DPA)....

We've just received the following press release from one of our sponsors, offering a 10% discount on the new Sonos multi-room system...

"Sonos allows music enthusiasts to enjoy their digital music collections in any room in the house - using wireless amplifiers controlled by wireless handheld colour screen remote controls.

Sonos can connect to music held in a variety of formats including MP3 and FLAC, stored either on PCs, Macs or even network storage servers. Sonos has been greeted with rave reviews since its launch in the USA, both from the press and from users for its amazing ease of use, cutting edge design and of course its great sound quality.

To celebrate the UK launch, Pluggedin.tv are offering 10% discount on all Sonos items ordered before June 30th 2005 - so now is the time to get that professional multi-room audio system you always wanted at a truly DIY price...

I've just uploaded the write-up on my new Jukebox/NAS machine at home. There are photos and costs too...

"Since ripping and centralising all our DVDs and CDs a few years ago our "Jukebox" server had grown and grown and was in need of replacement. With 5 years of digital photographs taking up 10s of gigabytes alone and ripped DVDs taking anywhere from 3gig to 9gig each!, no matter how much disk space you have it never seems quite enough.

The donated ancient motherboard and RAM that I had received three years ago had performed well. Despite being a lowly Pentium Pro 200 with 128meg, it had coped admirably with serving multiple PCs, Xboxes and other IP clients. However the drive bay configuration in the old AT rackmount case (that had been "modified" with a hacksaw to allow the ATX board to be fitted) meant there was no room left to add any more hard disks, and keeping the drives that were already in there cool was becoming a major issue too...

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Since ripping and centralising all our DVDs and CDs a few years ago our "Jukebox" server had grown and grown and was in need of replacement. With 5 years of digital photographs taking up 10s of gigabytes alone and ripped DVDs taking anywhere from 3gig to 9gig each!, no matter how much disk space you have it never seems quite enough.

The donated ancient motherboard and RAM that I had received three years ago had performed well. Despite being a lowly Pentium Pro 200 with 128meg, it had coped admirably with serving multiple PCs, Xboxes and other IP clients. However the drive bay configuration in the old AT rackmount case (that had been "modified" with a hacksaw to allow the ATX board to be fitted) meant there was no room left to add any more hard disks, and keeping the drives that were already in there cool was becoming a major issue too...