Greetings all!
We’ve begun rolling out kOS 10.14.0 to all Strato, Terra, and Alto systems, with some exciting new functionality.
I know that a number of people here will be very happy to hear that we have made disc-to-digital much easier by adding the ability to catalog DVD and Blu-ray discs on Strato using a supported external USB optical drive! It’s a very simple process, and we have a short
Knowledge Base Article detailing the exact steps, but the short version is:
- Buy one of the supported drives
- Plug it into the USB port on the back of the Strato
- When it’s connected, the Strato will be in “disc cataloging mode”, with some special front-panel behavior.
- Stick a disc in the drive.
- Wait until it is automatically ejected.
- Repeat.
It’s really that simple. You can monitor the process by watching the browser interface.
We know that the disc-to-digital process has been a pain point for customers and dealers on Strato-only systems, and we sincerely appreciate the efforts that some of our dealers have gone through to make Alto systems available to customers to catalog discs. Jim Goodrich in particular went far above and beyond the call of duty on this.
With this new feature, it should be dramatically easier for new Kaleidescape customers to get their disc library converted over to digital downloads.
There is a list of supported drives in the article. Note that the optical drive can only be used for cataloging discs. It does not support playback or any other functionality.
In addition to the optical drive support, 10.14.0 also includes:
- Refinements to audio track selection logic
- HDMI robustness improvements
- The option to purchase Season Passes through the onscreen movie store
- Bug fixes