Enjoy the Ultimate Home Theater Movie Jukebox
The Kaleidescape Movie Server Brings the Full Cinema Experience Home
In these days of virtually endless streaming options, you might be thinking: What’s a movie jukebox, and why should I care? After all, I’m not popping discs into a player anymore! Well. you may not, but you may be missing out on extracting the full potential of your home theater.
Streaming services are superb for the sheer convenience of pressing a button or two and seeing a movie come to life, but there is a bit of a price to pay. Services like Netflix and Amazon Prime do offer 4K video and Dolby surround sound, but they tend to optimize the stream for the data rate of the network connection. In other words, there is some compression of the stream, resulting in the loss of video and audio fidelity.
After you’ve spent a good sum on a state-of-the-art home theater installation, we think you deserve a higher-quality option in your Atlanta or Florida cinema. That’s where the Kaleidescape comes in, offering a new level of audiovisual performance with all the convenience of a veritable movie jukebox at your fingertips. Keep reading below to learn more about this exciting way to get the best possible film experience at home.
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A DIGITAL MOVIE JUKEBOX
There are several ways to store CDs or digital music on computers or servers, but when it comes to movies, things get a little trickier. The main problem is that DVDs, Blu-rays, and UltraHD titles are all protected by copy-protection technology, which means it's technically illegal to copy them. So, turning your physical movie collection into a digital movie jukebox that you can easily access might incur the wrath of Hollywood.
But back in 2001, a company called Kaleidescape came along and changed the game. They realized that digital movie formats, especially DVDs at the time, were on the rise, so they decided to create a server that could store hundreds of movies. And they didn't stop there—they made sure that their server would let you search for movies easily and play them instantly, making watching movies an easier and richer experience. Since Kaleidescape works with the film industry for the rights to the movie library, there are no issues related to the legality of content and your ability to watch it in your theater or multiple rooms around your home.
A SUPERIOR MOVIE EXPERIENCE
Kaleidescape has been keeping up with technology since its original products and its newest system offers the highest-quality 4K HDR and Dolby Vision visuals and Dolby Atmos immersive surround sound formats. The Terra Servers have disk options to hold as many as 1600 4K movies, assuring that you’ll never lack for something to watch. The combination of Strato players and Terra servers allows you to enjoy a great experience in your home theater and also access your library from a media room, living room, or bedroom.
Now, let's talk about the playback experience. Unlike traditional Blu-ray players, which can take a while to load and start playing, the hard drive-based Kaleidescape server brings up your chosen movie instantly. New solid-state disc technology brings all the performance of your high-end laptop to your movie theater for instant movie watching. Movies play at 5-10 times the bitrate of Netflix or other services, letting you enjoy a film with all the visual and aural detail and nuance that the director intended. You can browse all the info about a film and search by actor, genre, year, and more—it's better than many streaming services in that regard.
Need to find something new to watch? Kaleidescape has a movie store where you can buy or rent high-quality digital copies of movies to download to your player. With over 12,000 titles available for purchase and more than 8,000 titles available for rent, you’ll never run out of options.
With Kaleidescape, movie enthusiasts can enjoy an enhanced cinematic experience. Their movie experts annotate each film with essential data like screen size, end credits, and intermission cues. This lets the players seamlessly integrate with your home automation system, ensuring that lights dim, shades close, and seating adjusts automatically when the titles appear. Additionally, the screen mask can automatically adjust to match the aspect ratio of each film, creating an immersive viewing environment that surpasses the local cineplex!
Are you ready for an elevated cinema experience in Atlanta or Florida? Call GHT Group at (770) 955-8909, fill out our online contact form, or click the chat button below to connect immediately. You can also experience our technology firsthand in our interactive showroom! We look forward to working with you.