Kaleidescape, a manufacturer of lossless home entertainment AV systems, has announced Strato M, a new entry-level movie player for residential, marine, and commercial theater systems.
The Calif.-based company emphasizes that its latest product is offered at half the price of its previous lowest-cost system, and its says the latest Strato provides reference 2K video output, with better than Blu-ray quality. Like all Kaleidescape movie players, Strato M also supports lossless uncompressed 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 Streamlines Movie Selection for Easy Viewing
According to Kaleidescape, its new player works on its own or as part of a larger Kaleidescape system. As a standalone system, the new source component provides a single playback zone that holds a half-dozen movies on an internal solid-state drive, and it enables homeowners to download a movie in about 10 minutes over gigabit Ethernet.
The company’s latest movie player features a streamlined interface, designed 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 redownloaded at any time.
The new Strato product supports lossless multichannel 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, the company explains.
Kaleidescape notes the Strato player 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 users’ entertainment needs.
Kaleidescape Movie Store Adds Additional Options for Movie Night
In addition, as part of the Kaleidescape home entertainment ecosystem, the Strato M provides access to the Kaleidescape movie store, which the company says is 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 rent, including movies, TV series, and concerts. Kaleidescape stresses that movies purchased from its store are downloaded, not streamed, so there is never buffering or loss in quality.
[related]
It’s the first component introduced by the company since Priscilla Morgan was promoted to president of Kaleidescape in January.
