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Any content licensing updates to help justify investing in new Terra Prime hardware?

K

Kurvenal

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Even though K is my first choice source device by a long shot, I would guess that I use my Strato to play between 15%-20% of the content I watch in my home theater because most things I want to watch are just not available in the K online store.

At the rate that I am adding new titles, my 40TB Terra server will not be full for a while, so it is hard to justify getting a new Terra Prime.

Does anyone have any updates on any new K content licensing agreements? Given that most streaming services are bleeding cash, one would have thought that many rights holders would be more open to releasing some of their proprietary content to K. And what about international films? K used to have a very current and broad selection, but it does not seem to have grown much in the past few years.
 
the only reason i would think to upgrade would be that you want the faster download speeds. Its comes in handy if you don't have enough space to hold all your movies. You just delete something you dont care much about and add the new movie in 10 minutes.
 
My 2 cents are that the best K server product is the SSD 8TB Prime Terra with 4 Minute downloads.
There is no end to getting buying storage and hoarding movies in a hard drive which are also available in the cloud. No matter how much storage one has, you will run out.
With the SSD Terra I will buy the movies when I am ready to watch.
My Ideal K System would be:
(a) Have a 48TB Terra Prime to store rewatches such as music concerts and my Nolan movies etc (I own a Terra 40TB at this time which also works fine as it takes little longer to download).
(b) To have a SSD 8TB Prime Terra for quick 4 minute downloads.
But to have the above, I need to have:
(c) The ability to direct K on which Terra a movie downloads (not a solution to turn one off - which I can easily accomplish using my Wattbox cloud based power strips).
(d) The Kaleidescape covers should show all covers of the movies you own with the ones not downloaded with a indicator such as a grey check mark.
Until d is not offered by K my dream solution is no good.
 
Appreciate the hardware advice, but I was hoping to get some updates on K’s content licensing efforts.

I just checked the press releases on K’s web site, and the most recent announcement about a new content license dates from November 5, 2019, when K got access to MGM‘S deep catalog and filled a big hole in the online store.

Can anyone shed some light on new content additions since then?
 
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