Kaleidescape's new 4K player rivals UHD BD with Dolby Vision, lossless audio

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

I made suggestions in the official Kaleidescape thread at Blu-ray.com on how to bring the cost of the system down. Using high quality 24TB Western Digital hard drives for around $600 each and creating a 240TB external home hard drive server with a total of 10 24TB hard drives would be under $10,000 using a E-SATA or USB 4.0 interface enclosure. Also, I suggested creating a streaming app for a streaming box that has a 1,000Mbps ethernet connection then the cost of each additional room would be under $200 instead of $4,000 since on a wired home network streaming across the local home network would occur at 150Mbps for each TV location.

According to Kaleidescape's Support site you can not use a non-Kaleiedescape hard drive:

"Can a failed hard drive be replaced with a non-Kaleidescape hard drive?

No. Kaleidescape movie servers will not recognize a non-Kaleidescape hard drive. The onscreen and browser interface will indicate when an unrecognized hard drive has been installed in a Kaleidescape movie server."

Kaleidescape is effectively a propreitary system: you must use their hardware and their software.

https://support.kaleidescape.com/art...-Strato-system