As a brand new K owner but long time follower I am now running an issue all too familiar to those new to the ecosystem - how do I get my years/decades old collection into Kaleidescape? Of course the most common answer is catalog your discs and wait for disc to digital transfer offers. But there’s no reasonable way to do that anymore - every solution seems to rely on begging/borrowing/buying outdated hardware long out of warranty to read and catalog discs, hope that the hardware actually works and then returning/selling the hardware to the next new guy. What an absolutely stupid barrier to adoption.
Kaleidescape Inc needs a low cost (and I mean well under $1k) 4K/BluRay/DVD dedicated “Cataloguer” drive with a LAN connection and perhaps just a basic HDMI port to display operational/status info that does nothing but catalog a disc you put into it. I guess it could be a ‘player’ to preview discs (since it’s going to have to read discs), but it needs no audiophile/videophile features. It needs the most minimum hardware specs (for many it’ll be a throwaway device; an accessory for setting up a new system) and 99% of the software is already developed.
And this would allow cataloging of 4K discs (seemingly not available with existing options).
Yes, I understand the development process and realize this isn’t going to be a mass market $100 player. I’ve got about 2k discs that I spent a lot of time ripping to stick on a NAS to have a Dune/Zappiti/whatever player feed to my system. But after getting a Strato C/Terra I want to throw that all away and go all-in to a (almost discless) K-centric solution.
Why don’t we have this?
Kaleidescape Inc needs a low cost (and I mean well under $1k) 4K/BluRay/DVD dedicated “Cataloguer” drive with a LAN connection and perhaps just a basic HDMI port to display operational/status info that does nothing but catalog a disc you put into it. I guess it could be a ‘player’ to preview discs (since it’s going to have to read discs), but it needs no audiophile/videophile features. It needs the most minimum hardware specs (for many it’ll be a throwaway device; an accessory for setting up a new system) and 99% of the software is already developed.
And this would allow cataloging of 4K discs (seemingly not available with existing options).
Yes, I understand the development process and realize this isn’t going to be a mass market $100 player. I’ve got about 2k discs that I spent a lot of time ripping to stick on a NAS to have a Dune/Zappiti/whatever player feed to my system. But after getting a Strato C/Terra I want to throw that all away and go all-in to a (almost discless) K-centric solution.
Why don’t we have this?