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[Buyer’s Guide] Kaleidescape Quality Compared to Blu-ray & other Digital Sources
- Thread starter Rmarci
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Curious, if you use Strato V to upscale Gravity 1080p to 4k, does it introduce artifacts in the video?Gravity 2013
- KS is slightly better than the BD
- This pretty much confirms that the block artifacts are present only with 4K content. I couldn’t find a single block artifact even after checking carefully (zoomed to 500% and lifted the brightness). I looked at all the bright white areas where the issue usually appears in 4K.
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I did not try with Gravity, but I did with the Prometheus 1080p version the other day, and there were no artifacts.
The problem seems to be only 4K to 4K.
Broncowrangler
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I’m not sure if this has been covered on this thread, but just wondering if the ‘AI video enhancement’ feature (under advanced settings) has been disabled. I believe it is on by default. Maybe that’s introducing some unwanted processing?
At this point i feel like they(K) have just been playing lip service to all this. If true its extremely disturbing!
Not sure this assumption is that to make. The chipset seems to behave very differently 1080p vs. 4K (see content vs. GUI). So I can very well imagine that this might be baked into the hardware, not the software. At least, I think it must be something deep into the firmware of the HDMI chipset, which means they are dependant on the manufacturer.
Have you had a chance to re-look at Blade Runner 2049? Im curious if they fixed just the color saturation and if they fixed the DNR /Artifacts.Gravity 2013
- KS is slightly better than the BD
- This pretty much confirms that the block artifacts are present only with 4K content. I couldn’t find a single block artifact even after checking carefully (zoomed to 500% and lifted the brightness). I looked at all the bright white areas where the issue usually appears in 4K.
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Rental Family 2025 (OLD vs NEW firmware)
Rental Family (2025) KS NEW/OLD vs MA | Slowpoke Pics
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- Good example of the unintended DNR fix, look at how all the fine details are restored. If the damn block artifacts could be fixed too, that would be great.
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Yes, check a few posts back
Oh man I missed that sorry... not good...
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- Washed out colors fixed
- You can see the unintended DNR fix well in this screenshot; look at the details restored in the window.
- Fake grain overlay gone, but now the block artifacts are a lot more visible, and there's also chroma banding...
- Slightly darker than the BD. It might be another side effect of the block artifacts
My strato player is truly garbage if this can't be fixed, what a joke SMH.
Jin-X
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Well a hypothetical “we can’t fix it” better be followed by a “here is a Strato C with a Terra Prime” because the C has no internal storage. Even then that would render all the DV versions to be useless.
The other option is for everyone to get swapped out for new players (V2, E2) but how long would it take for them to make new players? And how do you trust they will get it right this time?
Given how unseriously they take this I do not think they would do that. At best they would probably just release new hardware in a few years and expect everyone to pay to upgrade to it.
If another player manufacturer is also using this chipset and doesn't show these artifacts, there's the answer.
hst, I don't think anyone knows the specific chipset besides K?
For the recent screenshots since your upgrade, I'm curious if you've settled on "Use external scaler", AI Video Enhancement "Off", "Prefer HDR10", and "Prefer 30 Bit" for depth?