Tips From The Top

One of the best parts of our role as A/V integrators is that we see the best technology available for our clients – and we can bring it to them for their private home cinemas. 

When it comes to high quality movie streaming and storage, there’s nothing better than Kaleidescape. It’s been the ultimate movie platform for private luxury home cinemas for more than twenty years.

The Kalediescape playback system uses a movie player and movie server, personalized and integrated in the home cinema. The Kaleidescape Terra Prime Solid State movie server is compact, with 8TB of storage, enough to hold 125 high-bitrate 4K movies or 200 HD movies. It uses a 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet connection for super quick downloads of movies.

The picture quality is out of this world better than the best streaming services available today. Most streaming services encode 4K video at about 8 megabits per second; Kaleidescape’s 4K movies are encoded at 65 megabits per second. The difference in the picture quality is astounding in accuracy and detail. While the content of streaming services is highly compressed and varies for internet bandwidth, Kaleidescape’s films are downloaded to a local hard drive and play in perfect condition every time. The audio is just as high quality; the company’s higher audio bitrate means every sound is pristine and full, as it is meant to be.

And it goes beyond top shelf streaming quality. Each film is annotated by the company’s experts specifically for the private home cinema environment. The films account for the home cinema’s screen size, end credits, and intermission cues, so that each movie perfectly integrates with your theater’s lighting, shading, and seating adjustments. The titles roll and your lights dim, the shades darken, and the chairs lean back. The screen automatically masks to match the ratio of each individual film. The result is total immersive, perfect viewing.

Another thing we hears from our clients – and we love, too – is Kaleidescape’s interface. It’s super fun and easy, not to mention visually stunning, to browse their catalog of movies, shows, and concert videos to rent or buy. Not surprisingly, even the company’s app is top shelf.

This spring, Kaleidescape announced they are bringing their expertise in home cinema to the commercial cinema market, delivering the same high quality library film releases to theater goers. Their system integrates into an existing movie complex, utilizing the same projectors and audio solutions already installed in the theater. This provides even more content and options for movie houses. It’s a terrific way to provide movie screenings, special event showing, or movie marathons.

To learn more about high quality movie, streaming, and storage for your private home cinema, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to discuss the possibilities.