The Engadget Interview returns! Veteran journalist J.D. Lasica interviewed Michael Malcolm, founder and CEO of Kaleidescape, a DVD movie jukebox that lets you save perfect copies of DVDs to a server stashed out of sight for streaming to your home theater. It recently won home entertainment awards from Sound & Vision Magazine and Popular Science. They discussed the emerging video server category, the lawsuit brought by an overprotective industry group, and why their bare-bones product costs more than J.D.’s car.
Give me the 30-second rundown on Kaleidescape – what do you do, where are you located, when were you founded?
We were founded four years ago this week. We’re a privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., with engineering labs in Waterloo, Ontario. We have about 45 people working for us. We originally got interested in how entertainment-quality motion pictures could be distributed to people’s homes through the Internet. We looked at all the facets and filed a number of patent applications for things like overlay distribution network architecture. We finally concluded there wasn’t a good a platform for delivering movies to the home and decided to focus on the high end of the market first. [Read more…] about The Engadget Interview: Michael Malcolm, CEO and founder of Kaleidescape