Kaleidescape officially announced the Compact Terra Prime 246TB solid-state drive (SSD) movie server at CEDIA Expo 2026. The high capacity movie server is designed for luxury home cinemas. The company said the Terra Prime 246TB is housed in the same compact chassis as the Strato K movie player and is precision-crafted from black anodized aluminum […]

Kaleidescape announced that it will celebrate its 25th anniversary at CEDIA Expo 2026 with the debut of its Strato K movie player and conversations shaping the future of premium home entertainment. The company previously launched Strato K – the world’s first 8K-certified movie player featuring the company’s new 4K Cinematic movie format. Kaleidescape will feature […]

CEDIA officially announced the project, business, and product finalists for the 2026 CEDIA Smart Home Awards Americas. CEDIA said that every entry was assessed by a global panel of industry experts using category-specific judging criteria. Judges considered a range of factors, including technical execution, design integration, innovation, business performance and overall impact. CEDIA said that […]

Kaleidescape today announced the new flagship Strato K movie player. Strato K plays 8K movies and introduces a new higher fidelity format called 4K Cinematic. “Kaleidescape’s Strato K is the world’s highest-fidelity movie player,” said Tayloe Stansbury, chairman and CEO of Kaleidescape. “It brings movie lovers closer to the filmmaker’s intent, with cleaner detail, true-to-life […]

Kaleidescape today introduced the Kaleidescape Terra Prime 120TB, a high-capacity movie server that stores up to 2,000 4K movies. The solution downloads movies in as little as 8 minutes with 2.5G internet. The company said that the Terra Prime 120TB is perfect for customers with large movie collections. High-fidelity movies from Kaleidescape’s movie store are […]

Kaleidescape, a provider of a high-fidelity movie library, has announced the appointment of Parker Greenlund as director of international and marine sales. “Parker brings a rare combination of strategic vision, hands-on execution and deep passion for the AV industry,” said Jason Welsh, senior vice president of sales at Kaleidescape. “His experience growing premium entertainment brands […]

Kaleidescape announced the release of the Mini Terra Prime, a compact solid-state movie server designed to deliver high-performance playback and fast movie downloads for residential cinemas. The new unit expands the company’s Terra Prime line and is sized to match Kaleidescape’s Strato M and E movie players. “Mini Terra Prime is Kaleidescape’s most compact movie […]

Kaleidescape has introduced the Strato E, an entry-level 4K movie player designed for residential, marine and commercial theater systems. The new model supports 4K video with SDR, HDR10 and Dolby Vision, along with lossless multi-channel and spatial audio formats including Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. Strato E functions as a standalone playback system, storing approximately six […]

Kaleidescape has launched a new installment of its Filmmaker Spotlight series, this time in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. The curated collection includes Scorsese’s favorite films, works by directors who influenced him and categories such as grifter movies, film scores, New York-based cinema and modern classics. The spotlight also features personal commentary from Scorsese and […]

Kaleidescape and Mercury Studios announced a collaboration to “bring the biggest names in music to the cinema.” Kaleidescape says it provides an alternative method to securely deliver library releases to the big screen. The Kaleidescape platform provides high-quality content enabling playback of content on demand. “Mercury Studios is about bringing our exciting films to audiences […]

Savant Systems has partnered with Kaleidescape, enabling integrators to deliver the ultimate home cinema experience to their clients. Kaleidescape’s movie platform, including Strato C movie players and Terra Prime movie servers, work within the Savant smart home ecosystem and are now available on the Savant Store. The Kaleidescape platform is the only digital provider of […]

Last month, Women in Consumer Technology (WiCT) added Amanda “Mandy” Beckner, CEDIA’s vice president of education and training, and Norma Garcia-Muro, vice president of marketing at Kaleidescape, to its board. We sat down with Beckner and Garcia-Muro to chat about their recent appointment and their plans for the organization. rAVe: What motivated you to join […]

I’ve been attending CEDIA Expo for 20+ years. In case you don’t know what it is, CEDIA Expo is the industry’s premier high-end residential AV show — filled with stuff to make your home smarter, build the ultimate home cinema or tech that makes nesting a home better. No, this isn’t CES — the Consumer […]

Hisense just announced a partnership with NextLevel Acoustics, Trinnov, Kaleidescape and a few others to showcase the “ultimate home theater experience” at the CEDIA 2022 Expo. Hisense’s award-winning Laser TV lineup, including the latest PX1-PRO TriChroma Laser Cinema and L5G 4K Smart Laser TV, will be featured alongside NextLevel Acoustics’ new Reference Cinema in-wall / on-wall loudspeaker series — […]

Trinnov Audio has announced its CEDIA Expo plans. As one of the first companies to bring DTS:X Pro technology to home theaters with its Altitude32 and Altitude16 processors, Trinnov will demonstrate the North American debut of DTS:X Pro in Sound Room 19, featuring an 11.4.6 channel immersive audio system. This demo is in partnership with […]

Want an immersive home theater experience at ISE!? When Trinnov announced the Altitude48ext, that gave Porcella more channels to play with. So they’ve redesigned their sound room to take advantage of a higher channel count to produce an immersive and cinematic audio experience. That means a 21.4.10 channel system. Start with five screen channels — […]

Wisdom Audio will demonstrate the benefits of Line Source loudspeaker design and the superior clarity and dynamics of the Sage Cinema series at CEDIA 2018. This 18-seat, three-row theater will feature a 9.4.6 Immersive audio presentation using a bi-amplified front stage of Wisdom Audio’s Sage Cinema Series Line 3, a Modular Line Source, in combination […]

Kaleidescape today announced the launch of the Kaleidescape Alto, a movie player that is the first movie player to import 100 percent of its locally-stored content from the cloud, via downloads from the Kaleidescape Store — with over 8,500 movies and 1,600 TV seasons licensed from the major motion picture studios. Kaleidescape Alto can play […]

Kaleidescape and the DVD Copy Control Association, Inc., the licensor of CSS (Content Scramble System), announced this month an agreement to jointly end their decade-long lawsuit. Kaleidescape and the DVD CCA jointly settled the case in the 6th District of the California State Court of Appeal and the Superior Court of Santa Clara County. Under […]

There are those who say that the greatest curse is remembering. Occasionally, I’ll go back into the archive on my hard drives of AV articles I’ve written in years past and browse. And I cringe when I read stories and editorials I wrote where, with the perspective of time, I can see that I was […]

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Kaleidescape will be forced to stop selling its DVD movie servers next month, per a new court ruling issued earlier this week. Earlier this month, Kaleidescape had lost another fight in a long and on-going court battle with the DVD Copy Control Association (CCA), which licenses the technology that controls the copy protection for DVDs. […]

Kaleidescape’s been fighting a court battle to keep its DVD-server business alive nearly since its inception back in 2001. The company started out as a $50,000+ DVD server company that aimed its wares at the high-end HomeAV market (i.e., CEDIA) and even added Blu-ray (and HD-DVD way back when) to its ripping and storing services […]

Kaleidescape has announced it’s finally shipping the M700 Disc Vault, a server-based system that simplifies the process of adding movies and music to a Kaleidescape system. The M700 works in conjunction with a Kaleidescape 1U Server in a basic system — a more complex system could have multiple servers, players and disc vaults. The M700 […]

Kaleidescape recently announced the availability of the Kaleidescape Mini System, which is the first Kaleidescape product to integrate a complete multi-zone Kaleidescape system into a single component, and the first to include a remote control. It is priced about 40 percent less than the regular Kaleidescape system. The base Mini System stores up to 75 […]