Introduction to Fusion 
Fusion Research started in 2003 and has been shipping media servers for many years with thousands of installations across the U.S. as well as over 25 countries worldwide. Fusion's founders came from the medical imaging industry and built their system from the ground up to be reliable with the highest possible video quality and playback performance. Fusion Research is one of only two companies that in addition to building their own proprietary video platform, also created a complete movie database system. This allows the company to maintain the highest level of cover art and movie detail that Fusion can control and provide. This database also allows the company to automatically update systems in the field as new movie loading technologies change. |
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Importing Movies
People are in front of their PC or MAC far more than their movie server and with the company's Load Anywhere utility, it couldn't be any easier to load movies onto your system. We believe this is by far the best method for accomplishing what is a very simple task. While loading movies, your computer is free to do anything else you want and the Fusion is also free to watch during the process, it couldn't be any easier or more convenient. |
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| Using your Fusion Movie Server
When you grow your collection, find out how easy it is to find what you are looking for with Fusion's powerful searching functions. This video covers some of the search, sort and filter abilities in a Fusion system that can tame even the largest collection of titles. Now that the system is in its 3rd generation of release, even users with thousands of movies can easily catalog and find exactly what they are looking for in their collection. Other benefits include being able to watch different movies at the same time in different locations when you add additional movie players to the server. Automatic book marking allows you to stop movies at any time and watch them where you left off whenever you want. You can also catalog all you home movies and be able to search and sort through them with ease without ever losing track of them again. |
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| Control4 Integration
A two-way driver means that all your cover art and movie data will show directly on the Control4 touch panels, including the new iPad or iPhone applications as well! Two-way drivers are also available for Crestron, AMX & Vantage among others, these drivers give the custom installer more choice as to how your Fusion system will work within your home theater project. For more information on how Fusion products can integrate into your control system, please contact Fusion at (925) 217-1233 |
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| What is a Movie Server?
This simple non-narrated video covers the basics of what a movie server is for personal residential use. The video shows some of the basics of operations of the Fusion server including navigation of the system. The video also covers search functions, filtering and sorting your videos using a simple hand held remote control. All functions on the Fusion Server can be accessed and used with a remote or a full control system. Fusion is also releasing a new free two-way app for the iPad & iPhone and will also offer a Droid version of its two-way app the 1st quarter of 2012, please check back for updates on the availability of these products.
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| Streaming Video
All the most popular apps are available including; Netflix, Vudu, Pandora, YouTube, TED, Hulu, Justin TV, NBA, MLB, NBC Sports, just to name a few. Another important point of this interface is that many of the apps have more features than found in other platforms. For example, Netflix does not require selections to be in your queue first before watching, the Boxee platform lets you search the entire Netflix catalog directly from the onscreen interface. Since Boxee is open source with millions of users, expect more features and apps to grow rapidly in the future. |
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| Features of a Fusion Media Server
A few of the great benefits include the ability to start a title from the begriming of the movie and avoid all the previews and advertisements that you are forced to watch. Other benefits include being able to watch different movies at the same time in different locations when you add additional movie players to the server. Automatic book marking allows you to stop movies at any time and watch them where you left off whenever you want. You can also catalog all you home movies and be able to search and sort through them with ease without ever losing track of them again. |
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Loading your movies couldn't be easier with Fusion's unique and convenient Load Anywhere utility. You have always been able to load your DVDs into the front of a Fusion server, but that means that you have to go to the equipment rack or theater area to do this. After several years and two generations of improvements, Fusion now gives you the ability to drop your DVD or Blu-ray disc into any computer in the home and have it auto-load directly into your server.
There is much more to a movie server than simply playing back movies. Find out some of the advantages of having a media server over a disc player or disc changer.
Fusion Media Servers will integrate with many control systems including Crestron, AMX, Savant, RTI, URC, Elan and in this video Control4. In fact Fusion Research is the only Media Server to be fully certified with Control4 and boasts a full two-way driver.