Used in conjunction with a home theatre or multi-room audio system, the audio and video server is becoming a very powerful tool in the automated home.  The popularity of the iPod has created the need for a home version that is a lot more powerful, and still easy to use.

An audio server allows you to store your entire music collection onto a hard drive for use around the entire house. Since it is a hard drive, your CD’s are backed up digitally, with no signal loss, allowing you to use the actual disc elsewhere. (In your car, office, cottage, etc ;) Easy to use, interactive menus let you search through your music collection by artist, genre or album title. You can create individual play lists that follow a specific mood, such as ‘party’, or ‘relax’. These menus are easily displayed on any television or touch screen, and one audio server can serve the whole house, eliminating the need for multiple CD players.

A video server functions the same as an audio server but with DVD’s rather than CD’s. You simply burn all of your movies into the server, and it makes it available to all of the televisions in your home. Different family members can watch different movies in different rooms, or pause the movie in the family room, and start it back up in the master bedroom. You can also search by title, actors, directors and themes. All movies are displayed on touch panels or televisions by their cover art, allowing the client to start the movies simply by pushing the picture of the movie they wish to view.