SimonSays
Well-known member
As above, I'm new to Kaleidescape, and currently have NO hardware from them.
As many of you however, I still have boxes full of DVDs, Blu-rays, HD DVD (yup), and 4K Discs.
I mostly migrated to Apple iTunes movies and TV shows, which is fine for a good 65" TV and my Onkyo with Dolby Atmos, but as an audiophile, I can totally appreciate there is better quality out there. My 4K player is an Oppo UDP-203, and there is a difference compared to streaming from any of the popular platforms, for sure. So Kaleidescape as a next step in quality is logical for me.
Having watched quite a bit of YouTube videos, it's obvious that the current Strato and Terra systems are the best choice, but what about my physical media?
I can't quite justify the ~$10K entry price to use on my 65" TV, plus it doesn't support physical media.
The way I understand it, the old series of components was called Premiere, and the current range is called Encore.
Is it correct that Encore never had a disc-player?
So if I wanted to start buying used equipment to support my physical media (Both Europe and US regions, by the way, as I moved from EU to US a few years back), what should I get?
And with the D2D program, can I already upgrade to the 4K version, even if I'm only using an HD KScape system? Just to avoid buying digital versions twice.
I do have some rarer DVDs/BDs that are likely not on the KScape store, so importing some of those might be useful too.
Not sure on the exact number of physical media, but a few hundred, likely.
After buying a bigger house and building the movie theater, I'll set a budget aside for the then latest version of hardware, but it may be best for me to start smaller now, and get the D2D program started before the old hardware becomes too unreliable.
As many of you however, I still have boxes full of DVDs, Blu-rays, HD DVD (yup), and 4K Discs.
I mostly migrated to Apple iTunes movies and TV shows, which is fine for a good 65" TV and my Onkyo with Dolby Atmos, but as an audiophile, I can totally appreciate there is better quality out there. My 4K player is an Oppo UDP-203, and there is a difference compared to streaming from any of the popular platforms, for sure. So Kaleidescape as a next step in quality is logical for me.
Having watched quite a bit of YouTube videos, it's obvious that the current Strato and Terra systems are the best choice, but what about my physical media?
I can't quite justify the ~$10K entry price to use on my 65" TV, plus it doesn't support physical media.
The way I understand it, the old series of components was called Premiere, and the current range is called Encore.
Is it correct that Encore never had a disc-player?
So if I wanted to start buying used equipment to support my physical media (Both Europe and US regions, by the way, as I moved from EU to US a few years back), what should I get?
And with the D2D program, can I already upgrade to the 4K version, even if I'm only using an HD KScape system? Just to avoid buying digital versions twice.
I do have some rarer DVDs/BDs that are likely not on the KScape store, so importing some of those might be useful too.
Not sure on the exact number of physical media, but a few hundred, likely.
After buying a bigger house and building the movie theater, I'll set a budget aside for the then latest version of hardware, but it may be best for me to start smaller now, and get the D2D program started before the old hardware becomes too unreliable.