Blu-ray Guide
10/09/2007
Sony HES-V1000 HD home entertainment server
Sony HES-V1000

With massive storage capacity, the innovative HES-V1000 from Sony offers a novel solution for the organisation of your movie, music and photo collection.

The HES-V1000 sports a full HD 1080p 200-disc Blu-ray Disc/DVD/CD changer (196 12cm BD/DVD/CDs and four 8cm BD/DVDs) along with a 500GB hard disc drive that can store up to 137 hours of video, 20,000 digital photos or 40,000 songs. With the built-in Ethernet connection, the device has the ability to download meta data for your blu-ray collection such as artwork and film and music score content.

With the optional wireless adapter the HES-V1000 can wirelessly stream music to other devices, such as Sony’s CPF-IX001 wireless music player and other Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) compatible wireless devices.

Connectivity comes in the form of S-video and composite inputs, audio and HDV/DV (i.LINK), as well as HDMI with BRAVIA Theatre Sync, component, optical, coaxial and analog outputs. The HES-V1000 also comes equipped with Memory Stick media inputs, Secure Digital cards, flash memory readers, CompactFlash media and xD-Picture Card.

Along with some of Sony's Vaio notebooks, the HES-V1000 joins a limited range of Disc-capable components with the ability to burn high definition material in the blu-ray format.

Available in the US this October for around $3500 (£1750) there is no word yet on whether the unit is coming to the UK.