yeah, most movies are same price as buying them on amazon. cool thing is if you catalogue your dvd / blurays you get to buy them for as little as 1.50, usually 3.50 or 4.95 a movie
I’m not sure how this is even still an option with all the cloud storage services where a knowledgeable computer dude can have terabytes of movies accessible from a movie server. Even easier and more home oriented if using a NAS storage device and local software that does the same job without this ridiculous price. It’s set to fail in time just like previously mentioned. This hardware approach with ridiculously high pricing for only 22 TB doesn’t make sense. 12 to 15 systems could be built for this pricing achieving the same results.
The market is saturated with this product no one else wants it. It's too damn expensive and most people are watching all the other streaming stuff anyway don't really see a future for this product unfortunately. The company should be direct cell lonely. It's too damn expensive. The movies are too damn expensive. And you can't view streaming stuff which sucks because the quality is so bad. I don't see a future for this company. To Tony boxes for like $15,000 Plus another couple thousand you're on movie crap and then you're not watching it that much because you're mostly watching the streaming sources. Unfortunately I don't see a future for this a company. Ultimately the player will become worthwhile but the storage lock up component is ridiculous
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude I don't have the streaming things people want to see. What I want to watch old movies no interest in seeing again. It's not useful
The day they drop the hardware lock down and make a free service for digital media rent they will totally dominate the market like Steam but for lossless digital versions of Blu-rays, DVDs, VHS, CDs, Vinyl, ETC. It doesn't have to be video limited. They can still sell the hardware as an "easy" solution for the enthusiast, but a device with internet connection and 250Gb available storage should be enough for everyone else. I can't imagine how could they make more profit with this locked hardware BS as a business model and how will they survive when the market is saturated. Let's be honest, they won't sell millions of units world wide, they don't even sell world wide. Maybe it is not their fault, but a restriction from the studios. But, eventually the game industry learned the hard way, music studios too, now is time for movie studios and TV studios to learn this lesson too! Streaming and rent are the only solutions for scale. Everything else should be options for the enthusiast. They already in Streaming services, time to change the rent services too! I call it RENT because if the business go bankrupt and stop working you lose everything! If you can lose it and can't migrate your purchases to somewhere else, it is not your property, you only paid to be legally allowed to consume the content using their platform. That is called RENT!
I would consider the strata c and then leave it to me to figure out the storage part of it. Would be nice if they could stream the stuff versus having to have it stored. Within four or five years everything will change in this area and this product will be a dinosaur
If you want to improve the Strato C, I suppose one option would be to replace the switched 12V power suply with a top notch 12V linear power supply. Have you tried this?
Im too scared. I have one from synergistic research i would like to try. Im using high quality power cables into the power bricks. the result is really good so far. I'll report back if I ever get the nads to do an LPS
If kaleidoscope goes bankrupt, what happens to the movies you’ve bought but that are not downloaded locally to the server? Will even the locally stored movies work when there are no longer updates or a connection to the (now gone) company? I’m asking because, along with the hardware, you can easily have another couple of thousands in movies in
I was close to purchasing one a few years back when ~95% of my theater content was movies that were coming from disks. That has changed, and I feel Kaleidescape has lost their edge for me since now ~40% of my theater content comes from streaming (NetFlix, HBOMax (Max), Disney+, etc...). For me the biggest win is lossless audio, but until K figured out how to work with streaming services to offer better audio and video than I can get streaming direct their solution remains diluted for me.
