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By coincidence I had stumbled across this video this morning having watched a couple of your others previously all good but this one seemed particularly spot on with our early experiences having had it recently installed. I would have added the frustrations with constantly having seen K reps and dealers online reference the enticing option of lower cost migration of your existing disk collection only to find that this is a very misleading claim. It is possible but it really isn’t viable or practical for a new owner because it requires you to locate a legacy disk player product, buy it second hand and then go through what seems a more than clumsy cataloguing process. The risk of second hand purchase alone making this silly and having to buy a disk product at the very time you are moving to digital is comical.
To balance this we love the K and what it promises in terms of quality and convenience but it would benefit from the points you make but TbH the D2D thing really nags at us. Maybe we will get past it at some point. I have to say that before we confirmed purchase we watched a video interview recorded in only Nov last year with a K employee citing it in detail as a great way to mitigate the cost of moving your collection. It’s clear they see it as having removed a barrier to entry but they can’t be bothered to organise a non legacy alternative. Weird.
I plan to contact Kaleidescape directly on this in the UK if only to ensure they understand this and maybe ‘to lance the boil’. I should add that we don’t have a massive disk collection by many standards, circa 700 I think and we may well not even bother moving most of them across. It’s not the volume or the cash even, it’s feeling misled. I should be clear that our actual UK dealer/installer bears no fault on this. Sorry I am all but ranting now and off the points and so will stop
Your video was a good one, excellent points and clearly made in a balanced and fair delivery I thought.
Great points. Many discussed. Seems like K’s customer base is shifting a bit from their pure luxury base to now include top enthusiast. With what Is happening to physical media coupled by the use of streaming (instant access), folks don’t want to search for discs anymore to have the best. Seems like K should at least invest in some QOL upgrades to their existing interface. Get a focus group together and generate ideas. They did some great things in creating their mobile app. Do something similar for GUI 2.0.
Enjoying these videos. Good balance of appreciation for K and analysis on opportunities to improve
Very well articulated Jaremy! I agree with all of your points and hope Kaleidescape is listening and working on improvements in the areas you listed.
TrackZ
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Yep, I've considered that, but most everything else I might switch to is 16:9, so I think it's generally easier for me leave that as the default.
I have a little different point of view on the Kaleidescape pricing. If you look at my table below, Kaleidescape hardware costs $12-31 for each HD movie and $20-50 for each UHD movie. I chose to go with the Terra with 72TB capacity. I pay a $12 to $20 premium for my movies for the Kaleidescape convenience and quality over disc releases and other online streaming services. It really isn't too bad if you look at it this way.
| Model: | Capacity: (TB) | Capacity: (4K) | Capacity: (HD) | MSRP (Full) | MSRP/TB | MSRP/UHD | MSRP/HD |
| Compact Terra | 6 | 100 | 160 | $ 5,000.00 | $ 833.00 | $ 50.00 | $ 31.00 |
| Compact Terra | 12 | 200 | 325 | $ 8,000.00 | $ 667.00 | $ 40.00 | $ 25.00 |
| Compact Terra | 18 | 300 | 490 | $ 10,000.00 | $ 556.00 | $ 33.00 | $ 20.00 |
| Terra | 48 | 800 | 1300 | $ 18,000.00 | $ 375.00 | $ 23.00 | $ 14.00 |
| Terra | 72 | 1200 | 1950 | $ 24,000.00 | $ 333.00 | $ 20.00 | $ 12.00 |
