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Players & Servers

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Movie Players & Servers

Source equipment that preserves cinematic intent without compromise

Hear the Difference — Within a Cinema System, audio performance is defined by how sound is preserved, distributed, and experienced across the room. Kaleidescape delivers a bit-for-bit identical copy of the studio master in lossless Dolby Atmos or DTS:X, allowing the system to reproduce audio exactly as intended.

With significantly higher audio bitrates than typical streaming platforms, the system reveals detail that is otherwise lost—subtle atmospheric cues, spatial movement, and low-frequency control become consistent and predictable outcomes of system design rather than compression limitations.

See the Difference — Visual clarity is not determined by the display alone, but by the integrity of the source feeding it. Kaleidescape provides video at substantially higher bitrates, removing common compression artefacts such as banding, noise, and softness.

This allows the full capability of projection, processing, and screen calibration to be realised. Motion remains stable, contrast remains controlled, and fine detail remains intact across both dark and high-intensity scenes.

Experience the Difference — A cinema experience is defined by coordination, not playback alone. Kaleidescape embeds metadata that enables synchronisation with Smart Home Integration, aligning lighting, shading, seating, and screen behaviour with the content.

The result is a predictable sequence of actions—lights dim at the correct moment, aspect ratios adjust automatically, and the environment responds without manual input. This removes operational friction and allows the system to behave as a unified environment rather than a collection of devices.

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STRATO 4K MOVIE PLAYER

Kaleidescape designed the Strato 4K movie player to provide a refined home cinema experience, giving film lovers a convenient way to enjoy their favourite films with high-quality audio and video playback. It supports a more consistent viewing experience than typical streaming services, with performance designed for dedicated cinema systems.

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Strato is a premium 4K Ultra HD movie player that supports high dynamic range (HDR) and lossless multichannel audio, including Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD, DTS:X, and DTS-HD Master Audio. Strato plays movies from a Terra or Compact Terra over a network, with bitrates up to 100 Mbps and frame rates up to 60 fps.

Players and servers group together to suit the needs of any home. The Kaleidescape onscreen display makes finding movies a pleasure. It starts a movie immediately without trailers or warnings, and lets you jump straight to your favourite scene or song without fast forwarding.

Integration with modern control systems such as Crestron Home and Control4 enables cinematic features, such as lights automatically dimming as the movie begins, and screen masking automatically adjusting to the film’s aspect ratio.

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KALEIDESCAPE MOVIE STORE

Movies from Kaleidescape are prepared differently from streamed content, supporting a more refined home cinema experience. Each film is processed from studio source files with minimal compression, helping preserve audio and video fidelity for playback through a Kaleidescape movie player.

The Kaleidescape Movie Store complements its movie players and servers with a dedicated catalogue of films and content. Soundtracks, subtitles and proprietary metadata are prepared to support the wider home cinema system, allowing films to be presented with greater consistency, control and quality than typical streaming services.

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