Kaleidescape’s entry-level movie player has been redefined with the announcement of the Strato M.
Kaleidescape, the high-performance movie platform creator, has announced Strato M, a new entry-level movie player for residential, marine and commercial theatre systems. Offered at half the price of Kaleidescape’s previous lowest-cost system (Strato V), Strato M provides reference 2K video output with better than Blu-ray quality. Like all Kaleidescape movie players, Strato M supports lossless audio.
“Strato M opens up the Kaleidescape experience to a broader range of movie enthusiasts,” says Tayloe Stansbury, chairman & CEO of Kaleidescape. “And in larger systems, Strato M is great for secondary rooms while reserving the flagship Strato V for main viewing areas.”
Strato M works on its own or as part of a larger Kaleidescape system. As a standalone system, Strato M provides a single playback zone that holds a half-dozen movies on an internal solid-state drive, downloading a movie in about ten minutes over gigabit Ethernet. It features a streamlined interface optimised for navigating a small movie library, offering automatic offloading of watched movies 48 hours after playback to make room for more movies. Purchased movies can be re-downloaded at any time.
Team player
Strato M can also be grouped with Terra Prime movie servers to increase movie storage. This returns Strato M’s interface to the full Kaleidescape user experience. Strato V, Strato C and Strato M movie players can all be grouped together with one or more Terra movie servers to fit any entertainment needs.
Strato M supports lossless multi-channel and spatial object-based audio, including Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. Strato M supports reference 2K video, with higher bit rates and bit depths than Blu-ray, including Dolby Vision, HDR10, BT.2020 and 4:2:2 chroma.
Kaleidescape Strato M provides access to the Kaleidescape movie store, described as the world’s only digital movie collection with lossless audio and full reference video quality. The movie store offers thousands of 4K and HD titles for purchase or rental, including movies, TV series and concerts. Kaleidescape movies are downloaded, not streamed, so there is never any buffering or loss in quality, says the maker. The Kaleidescape system is available in the UK from Invision UK and Pulse Cinemas.
For more information on the Strato M and an in-depth interview on the recent development of the whole Kaleidescape platform, check out the digital copy of Essential Install Magazine, which is live today. The interview gives fascinating insights into the company’s recent development by speaking exclusively to Tayloe Stansbury, Chairman & CEO, and Priscilla Morgan, President & COO.