For more than a century, cinema has chased after the gold standard of quality—always innovating and championing the artistry of sound and image technology for moving pictures. What started as silence and celluloid evolved over the past 100 years into an encounter that fully immerses us in the stories unfolding on the big screen.
We have seen cinema transform from black and white, to color, to larger screen formats; from no sound, to talkies, to stereo, to surround. Now laser projection, object-based sound, and HDR are forging premium and immersive experiences the likes of Dolby Cinema and IMAX.
As manufacturers, designers, dealers, and installers, this is the bar we have been trying to reach for decades – and with Kaleidescape at the source, we are now able to deliver.
That’s not to say there isn’t a place for streaming in the home. Streaming has its virtues and its disadvantages. But if you are striving to deliver a quality experience that truly brings value to your client’s investment, it just doesn’t make sense to have a 2K or 4K streaming device as the only source for content.
Don’t leave them hanging just short of perfection!
One reviewer of Kaleidescape explained it perfectly: you don’t put 87 octane gasoline in a Ferrari. You put in high-octane racing fuel. Your reputation is based on delivering a high-quality, optimal-performance entertainment experience that maximizes your client's budget.
So why should their new projector, large screen displays with HDR, and high-end audio processors delivering Dolby Atmos and DTS:X perform at anything less than what they are capable of? Anything short of the highest-fidelity content devalues your client's investment and doesn’t showcase the true capabilities you have implemented for your customer.
The performance you can deliver today with Kaleidescape’s fully lossless, reference-grade digital downloads is the strongest link in the home theater ecosystem. Kaleidescape delivers a bit-for-bit identical copy of the studio master audio in lossless Dolby Atmos or DTS:X. With an audio bitrate 10x higher than typical streamer rates, Kaleidescape dramatically elevates your processor, amplifiers, speakers, and room treatments.
Likewise, with a video bitrate 10x higher than typical streamer rates, Kaleidescape elevates your video processor, projector, and screen to produce lifelike clarity and precision. With compressed video on streamers, encoding artifacts such as softness, noise, and banding become obvious and distracting. Kaleidescape eliminates these distractions, allowing you to showcase your theater’s capabilities with breathtakingly realistic action scenes and special effects.
In other words, Kaleidescape is your digital racing fuel!
The Evolution of Kaleidescape: New Leadership, New Marketing, New Products
You may have seen a change in Kaleidescape over the past couple of years: new leadership, aggressive marketing, and new products. While I have an engineering background and was CTO at Intuit for a decade, I have always been a home theater hobbyist. I was first introduced to Kaleidescape while building our home theater. Initially, I pushed back. Why not just use an AppleTV? My dealer/installer urged me to give Kaleidescape a try, and I was immediately hooked. I saw the value the system delivered to my investment as my theater came to life.
When I was approached to be an investor and board member of Kaleidescape, I knew the potential of the brand, the product, and the innovation we could deliver to raise the bar for private cinema. Now as CEO, I have the ability to look at Kaleidescape from the vantage point of the customer.
The engineering team has done a tremendous job pushing the barriers of what is possible in-home cinema. With Kaleidescape, the audio is always richer, the video is always higher fidelity, and there is no degradation or pausing during playback.
In addition to the unrivaled playback capability, our new larger-capacity servers have the ability to download a 4K UHD movie in a matter of minutes so you can get a theater experience in on-demand time. At the 2022 CEDIA Expo, we introduced our newest servers, the Terra 88TB and the compact Terra 22TB.
The compact Terra 22TB movie server replaces our compact Terra 18TB, and the new Terra 88TB movie server replaces our Terra 72TB server. At the 2022 CEDIA Expo, the compact Terra 22TB won Best of Show Awards from What Hi-Fi? TWICE, and Residential Systems, while the Terra 88TB won the Residential Tech Today’s Innovation Award. Customers can now choose from the compact Terra 6TB, compact Terra 12TB, compact Terra 22TB or the larger Terra 48TB and Terra 88TB. This sequencing provides efficient options for those who want storage flexibility on a smaller scale, or for those with larger collections looking to expand as more 4K UHD titles become available. (Learn more about the latest products—now available via Kaleidescape’s dealer network—here.)
The Source That Elevates Every Component in Your System
At Kaleidescape, we are evolving the private cinema experience by elevating every component in a theater with higher-fidelity video source material, lossless audio, and integrative cues that control lighting, shading, seating, projector lens presets and screen masking.
John Sciacca says in his Residential Systems review of the compact Terra 22TB movie server, “for the customer wanting the ultimate in convenience, quality, and performance, Kaleidescape offers a truly unparalleled experience that elevates every system it is a part of.” This is exactly what we are trying to accomplish. (Read John’s full review here.)
As the only source component able to deliver these next-generation capabilities to the home, we have partnered with the best brands in the industry. Custom integrators know well that it takes a careful combination of multiple products working in concert to produce cinema magic. To achieve this, it’s necessary to invest not just in one component, but in an entire cinema solution. That is why Kaleidescape’s partnerships focus on joining forces with the most impressive brand leaders serving the residential home cinema industry, many of which are HTA supporting brands.
Click on each to view the details of these partnerships, which offer not only best-in-class products and integrations, but in many cases, savings that Kaleidescape dealers can pass on to their customers.
● Sony: Kaleidescape optimizes Sony’s high-end TVs and projectors for the ultimate 4K HDR experience.
● Stewart Filmscreen: Kaleidescape and Stewart Filmscreen bring the movie theater home with seamless motorized screen masking.
● KYD: Kaleidescape and Keith Yates Design raise the bar for cinematic experiences in the home.
● Trinnov: Kaleidescape and Trinnov Audio present movies at full reference, creating an immersive cinematic experience.
● Meyer Sound: Kaleidescape and Meyer Sound deliver the gold standard in sonic performance to your private home cinema.
● Lutron: Kaleidescape’s integration with Lutron HomeWorks sets the mood for a magical cinematic experience, every time.
● CINEAK: With Kaleidescape and CINEAK, just press play for the ultimate in cinematic playback and comfort.
Most recently, we announced Josh.ai as our newest strategic partner for voice control. No more searching through endless user interfaces to access the movie you want to watch. Kaleidescape customers are now empowered with contextual voice commands, like: “Ok Josh, watch Indiana Jones!” Like magic, Josh.ai capably adjusts the theater’s lights, closes the drapes, drops the screen, and launches the film on Kaleidescape–engaging the audience with a newfound sense of freedom and joy when launching their cinematic experience. Learn more Kaleidescape's partnership with Josh.ai here.
Become a Kaleidescape Dealer
It has never been a better time to become a Kaleidescape dealer as we embark on an era when the integrator’s role in content becomes ever more important to the homeowner’s experience. Kaleidescape is truly the ultimate movie player, delivering the ultimate experience to your clientele. Apply to become a Kaleidescape Dealer today at https://www.kaleidescape.com/find-a-dealer/apply/.
By Tayloe Stansbury, Kaleidescape CEO
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