Hands ON Kaleidescape 4K Movie Player Review | Worth the HYPE?

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Chapters:
00:00- INTRO
01:22- JILES INITIAL THOUGHTS
02:54 - WHAT IS KALEIDESCAPE
03:37 - WHY USE KALEIDESCAPE
06:13 - USING DISC TO DIGITAL
07:25 - OUTRO

[brianhorrorfan]

These things look great and I would love to own one but I just can't justify that kind of price tag ..$9000 to get your foot in the door...to save myself from walking 10ft to grab a disc from my shelf and put it in my oppo 203. If they ever did a mini all in one kind of thing for $2k-$3k I would consider it for sure.

[AdamMarr]

Tough to argue the convenience factor here, as you have to download a movie fully before watching. Fine if you've built a library on disc already, but not as fast as buying and streaming from an Apple Tv or equivalent. And while quality will be better, most will not be able to tell the difference between a Dv/hdr movie from Apple TV vs uncompressed video from KS. Also, i get the price is high as this is a niche market for now, but it's just a glorified NAS box with attached streamer, which any low end cpu/gpu could handle. You could build the hardware out yourself for under 1k, not to mention the 2-3x markup on storage upgrades. Then on top of that the slightly higher purchase price of movies. Again, i get the reason, lower volume means much higher pricing to make a profit, but doesn't change the fact it's probably around a 10x markup on the base hardware cost. That said I love tech, and if money was no object this would be sitting on my shelf, but for us 99%ers, 4k discs and streaming it is

[michaelb]

I would really like to see Kaleidescape offer Dolby Vision as some projectors are starting to have DV and many large 100+ inch TVs have DV.

[richardzagozeski]

If you don't live in USA, can you register with Kaleidescape Store in USA rather than the one in Canada (less movies available in the Canadian Store)?

[jasonsmith]

I've owned a Kaleidescape and then went my friend's house who used a Zidoo with a Nas.

I went home and immediately posted the Kaleidescape for sale in every forum available.

The Zidoo will do everything a Kaleidescape will do for a fraction of the cost.

I had my 10tbs of space Kaleidescape maxed out with 150 movies while my Zidoo w/ Nas has 80tbs of space.

The Kaleidescape very rarely will store more Metadata than a 4k Blu-ray and in the rare instance that it does, us (the consumer) will never notice visually or audibly. It's comical that this example gets used as a talking point (but hey, it's advertising)

The Zidoos informant and layout is every bit as good as the Kaleidescape.

Again, I've owned both units and I choose the Zidoo 10/10 times.

Thank you youtubers for making content as you are appreciated. You should also be transparent on the "perks" you are receiving by pushing certain products.

[EverythingHomeTheater]

Jiles is my buddy. He's got an awesome setup that sounds and looks amazing.

[hifihometheater]

I want to see Player Led LLDV on new hardware. Im not betting on it though...

[danielmcdonough]

I always wanted to know, does Kaledescape provide any options for a movie's audio language? Japanese is my thing! Thanks!

[gregbartley]

As a KScape owner, I can say it is a phenomenal system. That being said, I think the MSRP is stratospheric and make people question its value.

[DeanMartino]

I would absolutely love to buy this. I agree with all the upsides of Kaleidescape. Would LOVE to own it. However, the premium that you are paying for is largely just for convenience. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea and this checks pretty much every box on my wishlist for convenience, U.I., physical media conversion, 4K+ quality etc. That being said, no one can possibly convince me of the merit of the absolutely insane price of entry. Seriously? At the end of the day, the only thing this offers vs my physical discs and the $500 I originally paid for my Oppo is convenience. Not worth the $9K premium to me personally. I would be interested at maybe a third of the price. Maybe someday they will release an entry level version for the masses...

[grade]

It's a great piece of equipment! No question!
That said, if you decide to essentially pay 20-30K for this (Meaning if you want an extensive Library) you're Insane!
To pay this much for Storage, is outright Robbery on their end!
The player itself, I can see that price being what it is, No Problem.
For the TB's and the "NAS" itself to be that amount is again just Crazy!

[PMediaUK]

Sounds good but priced for the rich!! Hmm may wait a long while before stepping into this, until the price is more affordable to joe public!!

[runemllegaard]

I prefer 4k discs. They don't discriminate . I tried to visit Kaleidescape.All I got was. "you are not American, can't help you, fuck off". Like my money are not good enough. Never got such a response buying a 4K disc on Amazon.

[mephInc]

I'll keep my pis and home brew nas.
Every tv, tablet and phone has access to all of my content.
I can't stand being tied to a company.

[bingdong]

Dolby vision sucks but so does kalidiscape