Movie Store down for Maintenance July 6th

[Mr.Poindexter]

On the store, there is a banner that reads:

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Attention: The Kaleidescape Movie Store will be down for maintenance on July 6, 2015 9:00 PM PDT for approximately 8 hours.

Any downloads started before that time will resume once the maintenance window is completed. Questions? Email support@kaleidescape.com.
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Is it wishful thinking to believe this precedes another studio coming online?

 

[BigHat]

Hopefully Disney for the rest of us.

 

[Mr.Poindexter]

Maybe they will add "new" features, like being able to sort by price?

Would that be "back by popular demand" or something like that?

 

[JohnJ]

I can't remember it ever being down for this long a period so it must be something different going on. This has never happened just for adding a new studio so here is my pure speculation:

1) Adding functionality for Disney Movies Anywhere.
2) Upgrade of K servers to provide support for higher capacity of simultaneous downloads (and faster download speeds?).
3) Extensive redesign of the user interface.
4) After many year K really does have to do a major maintanance of the database.
5) Other......

It's fun to speculate. I will be curious to see what, if anything, has changed after the maintanance.

John

 

[appliedautomation]

6. A K employee wants to replicate the movie store to their new server

 

[Mr.Poindexter]

Or they may be needing to update the servers on the back end for 4K. While this won't be available to use right now, they will need to work that part out in advance of launch and need to do extensive beta testing. CEDIA is their main launch window and that is only a couple months away.

 

[cinelife]

A partially correct answer(s) is posted above.





Jim

 

[Mr. Integration]

my guess is a new studio

 

[Yetis]

Must be a hell of a large new studio. I suspect that K is about to have a face change...

 

[Diskreet]

The store really needs to be more mobile/tablet friendly too.

 

[Mr.Poindexter]

13 hours and still down. Guess sometimes, 8 isn't enough...

 

[Diskreet]

I'm so hoping the UK sees some benefit, but I fear the worse.

 

[Kicker]

Getting excessive. Someone is having a bad day!

 

[Yetis]

Well, I think its Disney plus some other updates. The Cinema One now appears to be a memory (on the site, and not a surprise), so one wonders if there are some other hardware updates coming that require major updates. I would like to see a viable streaming music option (I know, VERY LOW ODDs) and a Android app, also likely long odds.

 

[cmcgehee]

Has anyone checked their operating system on their K to see if we have a new and updated version to go along with what is hopefully a chance for Premier Line owners to purchase Disney today?

 

[JohnJ]

Nothing new for me - still on 6.0.1.

John

 

[fritzcurtis]

Mine did update a few weeks back. I away on a trip will post version number tomorrow. K losing some $$$ with the store being down during the day. Not a smooth update at all.

 

[Yetis]

Does the fact they are not updating and date suggest this could go on for awhile? As it has been suggested, not a solid showing.

 

[Yetis]

Not sure if this has anything to do with today and yesterdays events. But there appear to be some new additions at K.

http://www.cepro.com/article/dave_donald_leaves_origin_acoustics_for_kaleidescape/

 

[fritzcurtis]

K needs to fess up to the issue after this update. Sure hope this is a one time event.