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New kOS release supports disc cataloging on Strato

The Members on our Forum that own K likely represent less than 10% of all K owners. Most owner's lifestyles do not allow time for Forums, any Forum.

Jim
 
TrackZ said:
The new Kaleidescape disc to digital program using your own drive connected to a Strato player is an absolute win. Here's my edited video on the topic.
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Great video. As soon as I get the update I will connect my ASUS drive and start the process. Quick question, was any set up needed on the drive or did you just plug it in and connect to the Strato C with the cable?
 
leo9000 said:
Great video. As soon as I get the update I will connect my ASUS drive and start the process. Quick question, was any set up needed on the drive or did you just plug it in and connect to the Strato C with the cable?
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Thanks! No setup. Just plug and play. If the drive is plugged in and turned on, the Strato will automatically go into disc identification mode. If the drive is off or unplugged, the Strato goes right back to normal mode. It's immediate.
 
TrackZ said:
Thanks! No setup. Just plug and play. If the drive is plugged in and turned on, the Strato will automatically go into disc identification mode. If the drive is off or unplugged, the Strato goes right back to normal mode. It's immediate.
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Great thanks!. I've set up the drive and it's all connect. Just waiting on the update.
 
TrackZ said:
Overall, this is a very nice feature and change to the platform. Folks chasing down old hardware just to catalog has been a frustration. Kudos!

It would have been very nice, of course, to see 4K cataloging, but extending the existing capability like this is better than the alternative. I'm glad I never sprung for an expensive used Alto again. I came close a few times.

Can you comment on pricing for the offers?

I have noticed what looks like more standardized and higher pricing on digital offers ($14.99 -> $13.42 and $19.99 -> $15.38/$14.60). Has the pricing model for offers and the deep discounts established some time ago changed in preparation for this new redemption feature?
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From what I can tell, this higher price seems to be on some, not all, of the new 4K releases. My hope is as the release ages, the price will go down as I have sometimes seen previously.
 
This is really good news! That means that I can continue buying my physical disc and catalog my movies with an external drive. Best of both world.
 
I was curious, so I threw in an Incredibles 4K blu-ray into my LG WH16NS40 that has the older firmware which still "unofficially" reads 4K blu-rays (enclosed in the OWC external drive enclosure), and it read/cataloged it just fine. It wasn't recognized in the Kaleidescape D2D library, but it cataloged it as a normal blu-ray with the name of the movie on the disc, and the option to enter a barcode via the web ui, similar to how unrecognized standard blu-rays show up. Now obviously, there isn't the concept of a 4K blu-ray in the store, so even if Kaleidescape will match the movie to it after we provide the UPC, there still wouldn't be any additional discount beyond the standard Blu-ray Disc to Digital price.

The one benefit to this would be the increasing number of 4K blu-rays that don't come with a standard blu-ray, could theoretically be cataloged through this method.
 
Got the update this morning. Just got home and cataloged 25 blu-ray movies in about 15 mins. K recognized all of them, even those not currently in the K store and from multiple studios. I had 21 update offers from the 25 discs. Very impressed with this new feature, they really did a great job with this update. My wallet will not be so happy, but most of the offers were in the $3.14 to $4.92 range.
 
If anyone else has the 4k of WarGames, can you see if the Blu-Ray catalogs as Blu-Ray or DVD, I tried it twice and both times it sees it as a DVD.
 
JWort93 said:
I was curious, so I threw in an Incredibles 4K blu-ray into my LG WH16NS40 that has the older firmware which still "unofficially" reads 4K blu-rays (enclosed in the OWC external drive enclosure), and it read/cataloged it just fine. It wasn't recognized in the Kaleidescape D2D library, but it cataloged it as a normal blu-ray with the name of the movie on the disc, and the option to enter a barcode via the web ui, similar to how unrecognized standard blu-rays show up. Now obviously, there isn't the concept of a 4K blu-ray in the store, so even if Kaleidescape will match the movie to it after we provide the UPC, there still wouldn't be any additional discount beyond the standard Blu-ray Disc to Digital price.

The one benefit to this would be the increasing number of 4K blu-rays that don't come with a standard blu-ray, could theoretically be cataloged through this method.
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It would be good to test if it really does just give credit for HD or there develops a UHD-4k tier. Either way, definitely good to hear there is a cure for Paramount syndrome.
 
CPickler said:
Of course none of my external drives are supported. Ordered a new one to be here tomorrow. I wonder how much the cost of those four models will go up once this news is more widely released.
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I actually tried a drive that isn't listed and it works so as long as your drive is powered I would try it to see if it works before buying something else.
 
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