Testseek.com have collected 12 expert reviews of the Kaleidescape Cinema One and the average rating is 74%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Kaleidescape Cinema One.
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The editors liked
Extremely easy to set up—no more complex than plugging in a DVD player
Plays movies without all the warnings and unskippable preview crap
Beautiful
Easy interface
Stores hundreds of movies (via a 4TB "enterprise class" hard disk drive) in a form facto
Consolidates your entire DVD and CD collection into one library. Fast load times. Curated content is handy to navigate.
Rocksolid performance
Best user experience in the business
And Bluray quality downloads
Lightning fast access to discbased content. No compression = perfect picture. Whisperquiet operation. DVD rips in 20 minutes
Phenomenal user interface manages movie and music collections
4TB storage holds 100 Blu-ray/600 DVD/6500 CDs
Download store offers true Blu-ray quality downloads
Near instantaneous access to movies and iconic “Scenes”
Rock solid reliability and perfor
Internal storage for up to 100 BDs
600 DVDs
Or 6
000 CDs
Bit-for-bit downloads of BDs and DVDs from Kaleidescape Store
System interface and operation unmatched by any other movie server
The editors didn't like
Blu-ray discs have to be in the player—or in an extremely expensive add-on vault—to play
Even after being ripped
No ability to stream movies outside of the box—they play on your physically connected TV only
Web interface has extremely limited functiona
Bottom Line
The Kaleidescape Cinema One is the company's first consumer-focused media server
But at $4
000 it's only for consumers with deep pockets
You need the disc vault to store your Blurays
The system is expensive
And the Kscape doesn't support HD music files (yet)
Ridiculously expensive. Limited Bluray storage. No Netflix
Amazon
Hulu
Etc. Fourhour Bluray rips. Limited movie selection in Kaleidescape online store. Online store only accessible via PC or mobile
Expensive
No RAID protection for storage
Ripped Blu-rays require disc-in-tray of use of DV700 Disc Vault
