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Linking 2 Cinema One's

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Diskreet

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So I have almost filled my Cinema One, and am looking to get another.

I have a couple questions, from what I can gather, both setup with a wired setup, should be able to share the content between the two ? And thus both be able to play the entire shared collection.

So if one is almost full, or eventually full, does that mean I need to copy discs through the second new Cinema One ? Or if copied through the original Cinema One, be passed to the Cinema One with the available storage ?

Also, as an example, I have 500 disc's stored on Cinema One "A", and 500 disc's stored on Cinema One "B", and I take Cinema One "B" to my parents house for the week, would I still be able to play and have access to the media stored on the "B" Cinema One ?

Or by linking the two together, then removing one, disrupt the link and make the second player inoperable without the first original player ?

Im just thinking out loud here, any comments welcome.

Many Thanks.
 
We have not sold anyone a second unit yet, I'm getting close myself and the current discount on a second is really tempting. If it works like the premier line like I think it would, linked players would allow imports from either player and would have access to both servers.

Unlinking them should restrict access to only the content stored on that unit, but you cannot choose what content is stored on which. I would imagine if you wanted to isolate certain movies to certain servers, you could unlink them, load individually, then link them back together.

Kevin D.
 
I have two C1s, so I can make a few comments.

If you have two linked, it shows up as one big library and it's completely transparent as to which movie is on which C1. Also, they have to be wired. Linking two C1s is not supported through wifi.

I don't import movies through the C1 itself, so I'm not 100% sure, but it should have no problem ripping from one to the other. With the disc vault, it seems to import to the player with the most free space, so I would expect the same to happen if importing through the players.

It's not possible to control or see which movies are on which player, that is all handled behind the scenes automatically. The only way to know which movie is on which player is to unhook the network cable. If the cable is unhooked, the player will only show content from itself. You could probably play games with unhooking network cables to control which movie ends up on which player, but I'm not sure how well that would work since it wasn't designed with that in mind.

They seem to work just fine unhooked from the network, so I see no reason that you couldn't take just one with you to someone else's house. I wouldn't recommend unlinking them because that might cause trouble with how kscape tracks them on your account.
 
talitha said:
Can you add a C1 if you have a 3U server, and see all movies as one unit?
thanks
J
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If it is the original C1, then "Yes," you can add that to your 3U system. If it is the new C1, then "No," these new C1's do not link with a Premiere (5U, 3U, 1U) Server.



Jim
 
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