![]() ![]() This is a very clunky solution- the antithesis of the K experience so far and I for one will not spend a dime on such an inelegant solution. Honestly, I would rather Kaleidescape would have waited to get this right instead of this kind of cobbled together approach. So for now we have a mega buck system that in order to play a BR disc we have to put it in a tray, and if we want to play something the UI says is in there, we might have to run around the house to find the physical disc and put it in the tray- nothing different from the person with the Samsung player, except that the Samsung might decode to PCM and handle 3D and cost 1/100th the price. One reason we pay through the nose for K products is because of the elegance. The need to keep the discs in trays or some kind of bulk loader is very inelegant- never mind the legalities. (JerryL) First of all, the requirement for people to have a single disc in a player is absurd. Extremely disappointed that the disc is required in the tray (for the next year and a bit at least)! Pointless! If this is the case I see no reason to upgrade until the loader/stacker is available. (Panamar) I have to say I’m not completely impressed. Some members understood this as a need to appease studio concerns, but the vocal majority felt it was a huge step backwards from the performance and usability they’ve come to expect: The most obvious and loudest groan came from the requirement of needing to have the Blu-ray disc in the tray for playback. And so far, many of the comments have been quite a bit less than “Way to go, Kaleida!” These are people that have already ponied up the $10,000 and up (usually WAY up) admission price into the club of Kaleidescape ownership. These are not your typical chat room posters slagging the system for being ridiculously overpriced or comparing it to some hard drive and Franken-cobble computer home-brew solution. ![]() ![]() I’ve been checking in with the Kaleidescape Owner’s Forum over the past several days, where the participants have vested interests in this new player. Not really so much as a home run, but more of a squib single or advance on hit-by-pitch. (If you haven’t read that announcement, click here.) Owners of their premium movie server system have been waiting A LONG time for a Blu-ray solution, and with yesterday’s announcement reception was a solid…coolly neutral. Yesterday was a big day for Kaleidescape. (Scroll to bottom for updated om Kaleidescape CEO Michael Malcolm!) ![]()
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