Another Kaleidescape thread

[4K fanatic]

Kaleidoscope inc. Uncompressed lossless 4K media purchases. As good as cinemas get. Start your own home theatre. Hardware costs a lot but hopefully comes down if they scale. 80-150GB. 65-100+mbps 6mbps loseless audio.

https://www.kaleidescape.com/movie-s...reckoning-2025

Welcome true Cinefiles with cash to burn

[willo007]

Wut?

GTFO!

This thread should be moved to the digital section.

[SpacemanDoug]

To once quote Joe Pesci:

"What the f-ck is this?"

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by 4K fanatic

Kaleidoscope inc. Uncompressed lossless 4K media purchases. As good as cinemas get. Start your own home theatre. Hardware costs a lot but hopefully comes down if they scale. 80-150GB. 65-100+mbps 6mbps loseless audio.

https://www.kaleidescape.com/movie-s...reckoning-2025

Welcome true Cinefiles with cash to burn

It will never come down to scale as the masses are more than happy with compressed streaming. If most people cared about quality, discs would still be thriving. K-Scape can only exist as a tiny niche.

Funny how with those insane prices K-Scape has none of the remastered licensed titles from Kino, Shout, Arrow, 88 Films, etc. I own. I guess you're limited to just overpaying for the big studio stuff.

[Guydowood]

Physical Media will "End" when the collector leaves this Earth. Until then carry on.....

[Gretiem]

[Darth Marcus]

[MuffinMcFluffin]

This may be a stupid question since I don't make digital purchases, but is even possible to play these at 24 FPS? Because when I use a streaming app my TV stays locked at 60 Hz.

If it's not possible, I would never ever prioritize streaming, no matter the quality.

[Bumblefeet]

I read this as the start of physical 8K media.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

This may be a stupid question since I don't make digital purchases, but is even possible to play these at 24 FPS? Because when I use a streaming app my TV stays locked at 60 Hz.

If it's not possible, I would never ever prioritize streaming, no matter the quality.

What streaming app do you use? Because that's not how it should be. Get an Apple TV. Of course they can play 23.975fps.

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

What streaming app do you use? Because that's not how it should be. Get an Apple TV. Of course they can play 23.975fps.

I don't know if I've seen a movie on Apple TV. I've used the others, though (HBO Max, Netflix, Paramount+), and my TV doesn't let me activate Cinema Smooth (its option to display 96 Hz and 4:4 pulldown) like it does for UHD/BD content.

[LPMA]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

I don't know if I've seen a movie on Apple TV. I've used the others, though (HBO Max, Netflix, Paramount+), and my TV doesn't let me activate Cinema Smooth (its option to display 96 Hz and 4:4 pulldown) like it does for UHD/BD content.

Why are you using Cinema Smooth though? If there's one thing that'll mess with framerates/display, it's that.

[MuffinMcFluffin]

Originally Posted by LPMA

Why are you using Cinema Smooth though? If there's one thing that'll mess with framerates/display, it's that.

Did you just read what I said Cinema Smooth does on my TV? It enables 24 FPS playback.

Don't assume that just because "Smooth" is in the phrasing it means SOE. That feature on my TV is called Motion Judder Canceling (which is off, by the way).

If I want what I'm looking for, CS needs to be on. It is disabled when I stream. Digital purchases? Unsure.

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

I don't know if I've seen a movie on Apple TV. I've used the others, though (HBO Max, Netflix, Paramount+), and my TV doesn't let me activate Cinema Smooth (its option to display 96 Hz and 4:4 pulldown) like it does for UHD/BD content.

I'm not talking about AppleTV the app. I'm talking about the device.

[Tok]

Kaleidescape- a box with about a 1000% markup relative to its capabilities and storage capacity of other systems. Their entry level box isn’t even 4K capable. Add another $1k to the price if you want 4K. If Apple ever decides to deliver higher quality downloads with lossless audio K-scape’s market is gone overnight

[unsung122212]

Originally Posted by Tok

Kaleidescape- a box with about a 1000% markup relative to its capabilities and storage capacity of other systems. Their entry level box isn’t even 4K capable. Add another $1k to the price if you want 4K. If Apple ever decides to deliver higher quality downloads with lossless audio K-scape’s market is gone overnight

Unfortunately it’s up to the studios on the download part, not Apple. They don’t allow the digital retailers to let people download the 4K files, only HD. It would be nice if studios made digital copies available to download the same files they have on discs. Unfortunately they only put those digital copies on discs.

[starmike]

Sorry, no. I'll keep my discs, thanks.

Also, that's too expensive for what it is.

[koberulz]

Kaleidescape has been around for years.

[Blacknapkins]

[BobSimms]

Mods, please delete