![]() The larger box held the server, which houses the hard disc cartridges and actually stores all the movies and music, while the second box held the new player. Within days, two boxes arrived on my front porch. In fact, during my last review, I noted, "The Movie Player 2 flawlessly passed the video scaling tests on the Silicon Optix HQV Benchmark disc, offering the best performance of any device I've tested." How much better could the new player be? PERFORMANCE From experience, I know that Kaleidescape's current-gen movie players are no performance slouches. Others, like adding iTunes integration and an interface that eases classical music-browsing, are just further enhancements to the experience.Ĭheena promises that the new players will deliver next-level video performance, so I was definitely excited to get my hands on one. Some, like the addition of HDMI video outputs and larger hard disc cartridges (from 300 Gigabytes to the current 1 Terabyte), were necessitated by market demand. Like any technology company, Kaleidescape has steadily released updates and improvements to their line. ![]() However none have produced an interface that approaches the elegance and simplicity of Kaleidescape. Since Kaleidescape's introduction, other companies have come along with their own movie servers - many of which are built on modded versions of computers running Media Center. On its mega-sized hard drives, all your movies and music are stored then streamed to clients, or players, around the home. More accurately: Kaleidescape is the movie and music server, since they invented the category. The planets aligned in my favor, resulting in my being one of the few reviewers handpicked by Kaleiedescape co-founder and COO, Cheena Srinivasan, to audition and preview their latest addition.įor the uninformed, Kaleidescape is a movie and music server. It also doesn't hurt to be in the right place at the right time. If the front bezel remains a bright blue, then it is failing to boot, and likely has a faulty main board.They say luck favors the prepared. In either case, the player will appear on the lskd.html page, meaning it will also appear on the components page where you can change the IP address to DHCP (or a different static address). If it dims to a lighter blue, then it is booting with either a DHCP address, or a previously assigned static address. If the front bezel light never changes, then likely the player is not booting. The front bezel will illuminate a bright blue when first plugged in, but after about 45 seconds, it will dim to a lighter blue, or it will turn amber if booting successfully. If you are confident the player is connected to the network, then observe the player's behavior after plugging it in. If the player does not appear on that page, then there is likely another problem (likely it is not properly connected to the network, or it is failing to boot). the SGID column indicates what components belong to what other components. This is a super useful page that loads quick (there is no waiting for the GUI to appear), and displays all relevant network info for each device regardless if there are multiple systems, or if there are orphaned devices that have never been added to a system. To see a list of all Kaleidescape devices on the network, try accessing the lskd.html page ("lskd" stands for "list of Kaleidescape devices"). Just click the "Register" button in the upper right corner of this page, and follow the instructions there.Īll Kaleidescape devices send out a UDP heartbeat on port 440 every second, and in doing so, any server on the network will detect ANY Kaleidescape device regardless of the IP address. ![]() It's easy and free to register for the forum. You won't see this annoying notice at the top of every screen!□.Go directly to great scenes in your favorite movies, created by other owners, and add automation to playback of your system with Scripts. The "resources" area of the forum contains many "Favorite Scene" and Script files that can dramatically increase the enjoyment of your Kaleidescape system. Use the "Conversation" feature (known as "private messaging" on other forums) to communicate directly with any of the other users here.You will be able to start your own thread on a topic or question, or you can reply to other threads/discussions. Participate in the discussions! You must have a registered account to make posts on the forums.There is no cost to register for a full account.īenefits of registering for a full account: but we strongly encourage you to register for a full account. The forum is free to use and most of the forum can be used by guests who are not registered. You are currently in "Guest" mode and not logged in with a registered account. ![]()
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