Kaleidescape Strato S 4K Ultra HD Movie Player Review link

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The Kaleidescape system is exactly the same picture and sound quality as 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. Lossless 11.1 DTS X and 11.1 Dolby Atmos is supported. The library of 4K Ultra HDR titles is larger then the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray titles offered for some movie categories, therefore is Kaleidescape winning the format war with a fancy menu interface and a massive 4K HDR selection with lossless audio?

One negative of the Kaleidescape system is that it does not support Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10+ at this time.

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“Kaleidescape supports HDR10 high dynamic range, but not Dolby Vision or HDR10+.”

“The advantage to Kaleidescape is that it offers a large range of titles that are only being offered for digital delivery in 4K/HDR— the last time I checked, there were almost 400 4K/HDR titles available in the Kaleidescape movie store that are not available on disc.”

“ Kaleidescape supports both Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, with plenty of movies available in both formats. But there are titles lacking Dolby Atmos or DTS:X when the same movie can be found on disc or on other digital services with immersive audio. The specific movies I'm referring to are mostly from Universal and 20th Century Fox, although more Universal titles with Atmos were added during my review and I've heard that more are coming from Fox.”

https://www.soundandvision.com/conte...-player-review

Also since the Kaleidescape system uses download to a hard drive server instead of streaming, therefore it works with all slow Internet services located in extreme rural areas that offer only up to 14Mbps download and 1Mbps upload. Also for those consumers that have 10Gbps and 1Gbps fiber Internet the download speed of a 100GB 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray image will be much faster. More and more people in rural areas of Alaska and Hawaii are getting 1Gbps fiber internet service. There is a lot of 100Gbps fiber optical cables coming from California and connecting to Alaska and Hawaii. In fact, the entire east and west cost of the United States is connected to many countries around the world with 100Gbps fiber optic cable that is under the ocean. Check out these links

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

https://www.govtech.com/network/Unde...to-Hawaii.html

[DJR662]

Should one day physical media disappear altogether, something like this will be the only substitute I would be willing to accept.

[kristoffer]

That price though! And what happens to your movies when / if the company disappears?

[Gretiem]

I would love to switch to Kaleidescape but there pricing for their hardware is INSANE.

[HDTV1080P]

Many years ago I made some suggestions at Blu-ray.com on ways the Kaleidescape system could be made cheaper to reach mainstream people in America and other areas around the world. If a whole house Kaleidescape server could be made for $2,000+, and have the ability for consumers to plug in Seagate Enterprise 16TB 7,200RPM hard drives for around $400 each, then someone could start out with a 16TB server for around $2,400+ and then each time they need another 16TB or 20TB of storage added to the main Kaleidescape whole house server it would cost $400-$500+. In the future if one could add 16TB to 20TB of storage with a Seagate Enterprise internal or external hard drive for around $400+ that would make the system cheaper. Then in each person’s home that is hardwired for 10Gbps or 1Gbps home networking in all the rooms, a Kaleidescape box with a small solid-state drive could be sold for around $500-$1,000 each. If the cost of the main Kaleidescape hard drive server was only around $2,500 and each Kaleidescape boxes were only around $500+ each, then every room in a large home could be outfitted with Kaleidescape at a price much cheaper then the system costs today. Right now, Kaleidescape system is the best of the best system for videophiles and audiophiles, but if the company wants to expand to become the next VUDU or Netflix company some changes need to be made to make the system more attractive to mainstream consumers.

Also in other posts I have suggested that since many people are getting 1Gbps Internet service (sometimes 10Gbps in larger cities). The Kaleidescape company might want to consider making an app for a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player. The old 2016 OPPO UDP-203 has 1Gbps ethernet connections, so does the 4K Panasonic and Playstation 5. One can stream Kaleidescape movies with the exact same bit rate as a 128Mbps 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs, it just requires ones Internet speed to be a constant minimum of 150Mbps. Therefore, someone with 1Gbps Internet service could be streaming multiply 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs images to several different rooms for all the family members. There just needs to be a Kaleidescape app developed that would be compatible with all 4K streaming devices that have a 1Gbps ethernet jacks (Plus WI-FI options with people that have fast and reliable enough WI-FI). Then the quality of Kaleidescape streaming would be exactly the same as Kaleidescape download service to a hard drive. If Kaleidescape streaming were to become a reality they could offer movies at the same price structure that they currently offer but they would just be streaming at the same exact quality as the download service. Maybe one day a Kaleidescape Netflix type structure where Kaleidescape charges $30-$50+ a month to stream a package of older movies could be developed. If Kaleidescape became popular enough maybe Netflix or Walmart’s VUDU would purchase the company to gain access to technology that allows one to stream a 128Mbps 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc images.