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    Kaleidescape Complete System (3U) for sale

    SOLD. Thank you!
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    Kaleidescape Complete System (3U) for sale

    From what I can discern, a total price of $7K (plus shipping) would be a very fair price.
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    Kaleidescape Complete System (3U) for sale

    FOR SALE: Kaleidescape Complete System (3U) I'm going to sell my complete system which consists of: KSERVER-5000 (3U) server with 8 x 4TB disks loaded. This was purchased new about 4 years ago and was an "upgrade" from the earlier system I had. It is "grandfathered" in so can import DVDs. I...
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    US Releases for May & June

    Grrrr. "Lego Movie" is available from iTunes and Vudu today, 4 weeks before k'scape-store. That means I have to buy it twice :-<
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    All customers are not created equal -- I suspect that one K'scape customer is worth 20 typical AppleTV customers in the amount of movies that they'd typically buy. Do the studios hate K'scape (is DVD CCA an extension of studios, or autonomous enough to bear their own grudge?). Obviously some...
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    At some point, you lick your wounds, let bygones be bygones and make appropriate business decisions based on realities. Even Sony became a VHS licensor, Microsoft invested $150M in Apple, etc..
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    Good times! I remember configuring a Cisco router for T1 (a whopping 1.544Mps) that cost us $1500/mon..
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    If I end up upgrading, I'll have 20TB of finite storage. If I was going to buy "Madea's Christmas" and it was available in Apple's HD-compression format and take up 5GB of storage on my server instead of 45GB, you'd better BELIEVE I'd go for that option!
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    Assuming it's LTE and you are in a major metro area, you should have enough bandwidth to stream from your HOME system -- you could use a (M)300 player and then define a VPN link from your car to your home network. I wouldn't want to put hard-drives in your car, they would only last a few months...
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    Complete Kaleidescape System for sale

    There are 10 cartridge spots used and 4 spare bays. This must mean (to explain 7954 GB of storage) 2 x 2TB (one as "spare", one "data parity") 8 x 1TB data cartridges
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    I have contacted my dealer and requested upgrade pricing. I'm seriously considering going that route based on the quote. I do like the fact that K'scape offer Blu-Ray quality via download, there are some movies that really cry-out for Dolby TruHD or DTS-HD audio and high bit-rate video. I wish...
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    It IS a simple Fermi problem, but it does help to put in basic details correctly -- thanks for the corrections guys.
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    Pretty simple Fermi problem. 20 movies per page, ~40 pages of movies = 800 movies ~10 pages are HD = 200 HD movies Say approx 5GB for SD, 50GB for HD average 600 * 5 + 200 * 50 = 13 TB total K'scape probably just uses S3 or Rackspace to host the files in the cloud (would be silly to implement...
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    Complete Kaleidescape System for sale

    I'll double-check!
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    Complete Kaleidescape System for sale

    I have a complete Kaleidescape System for sale. I am located in Washington state, and would prefer a local buyer, but I will ship if necessary (seller pays for shipping/insurance). All components are out of warranty. Although the components (to my understanding) are eligible for the server...
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    Good point about streaming. I have 50Mbit from Comcast that has been quite reliable, and in my household there is only ever 1 HD stream active at a time anyway. The store could offer MPEG-2 downloads -- they would take up a little more space than MPEG-4. I'm sure it was a marketing decision...
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    The Kaleidescape-owner's dilemma

    I have had a Kaleidescape system for 5+ years or so now, and I?ve loved it to pieces. I?ve made a few upgrades along the way, and I?ve got 8TB of storage, 2x1080p players and 2x1080p mini-players. K?scape have made great improvements to their system over the years, but I?m very disappointed that...
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    NEWS: Kaleidescape Testing Movie Downloads!

    It would be a real shame if K'scape don't offer different bitrates for download. Although a full bitrate HD for Avatar might make sense, I'd hate to throw away 20GB (or incur that much download data) for something like "Bridesmaids" or "Arthur" as random examples. That's not to say I wouldn't...
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    NEWS: Kaleidescape App for iPhone

    Nice app. Would be a nice feature if it let you see a list of your current movies stored on your server.
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    NEWS: New Kaleidescape "M-Class" players announced, with Blu-ray support

    Will the eventual download-store work with KPLAYER-6000s for HD content - does anyone know? For most movies I own, there are very few I would want to dedicate 20-50GB of storage to just to add HD capability. I rarely buy the BluRay versions of discs unless the DVD is available in a combo pack...
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