Kaleidescape has more capacity and higher video bit rate when compared to 4K Blu-ray

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Originally Posted by Vilya

Until the studios themselves show an interest in providing their movies and TV shows in 8K to the home consumer (and they have shown none to date) it does not matter what Kaleidescape may be considering regarding 8K. Kaleidescape can only offer what the studios license to them.

That and organizations join all kinds of groups all the time. Many of these groups put out nice-sounding press releases stating how great it is that so many big names are coming together in the name of X. Most of these groups then proceed to have maybe one or two meetings and then never meet again. It's basically something to put in the back pocket just in case there's enough momentum to actually coordinate on real products.

As is, like you said, there's zero interest in 8K releases from studios. I don't blame them. Does Hollywood even shoot a significant number of films in >4K resolutions? Last I checked, most don't, and that's assuming the lenses are good enough to reveal enough detail to make >4K DIs worthwhile. (As is, my understanding is that the extra resolution is meant more for wiggle room when editing the raw footage into a 2K/4K DI.)