Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don’t work anymore

[NBPK402]

I am sticking to ripping to hdds....the money I save can pay for a lot of more important thjngs. Good luck to everyone who has Kaleidescape and I hope they do not go under or that the Movie studios decide no more Kaleidescape.

 

[NBPK402]

I found it doesn't work with my current player, so I had to order one of their "validated" players from Amazon. Another expense... lol.

I wish I had your money Sonnie...sounds like another money pit. Lol

 

[Todd Anderson]

Yeah, you’ve gotta have a player that’s been approved. They run in the $120-$160 range if memory serves.

I tried to save by buying a player used… sold as working but no power cord. By the time I sourced a cord, months had passed. Of course, that player never worked.

Should have stuck with a new player!

 

[Todd Anderson]

Is the Streaming Audio up to the level / standards as what's available on Blu-ray?

Technically speaking, no. But it varies from quite good to not so good, and there’s a lot of factors that impact that.

I don’t think we’re far off from some incredible streaming experiences tho. Just look at tech like Auro-CX. Once things like that take hold, physical media will have met its match!

 

[Sonnie Parker]

I wish I had your money Sonnie...sounds like another money pit. Lol

No doubt it's a money pit and a lot to pay for convenience. I certainly wouldn't borrow money to buy it. In the grand scheme of luxuries (thinking Rolls Royce and yachts, etc.), it's on the lower side of the price scale.

 

[-Jim-]

Technically speaking, no. But it varies from quite good to not so good, and there’s a lot of factors that impact that.

I don’t think we’re far off from some incredible streaming experiences tho. Just look at tech like Auro-CX. Once things like that take hold, physical media will have met its match!

I don't disagree, but I often wonder how many folks never have experienced the "good" sound available on Blu-rays, and think what they hear elsewhere is the best available. You can have a fabulous system that's cost you thousands of $, but if the source material is poor, all you get is poor sound.

Streaming / Broadcast TV needs to overcome their focus on picture quality only and get behind accurate lossless sound.

Until then, as they used to say "it's garbage in & garbage out!".

 

[Travis Ballstadt]

I don't disagree, but I often wonder how many folks never have experienced the "good" sound available on Blu-rays, and think what they hear elsewhere is the best available. You can have a fabulous system that's cost you thousands of $, but if the source material is poor, all you get is poor sound.

Streaming / Broadcast TV needs to overcome their focus on picture quality only and get behind accurate lossless sound.

Until then, as they used to say "it's garbage in & garbage out!".

I think that's a market that simply knows their audience. They know the 95% of the audience who hasn't invested like we have in their theater/av equipment will never know the difference on their soundbars, and the 5% of us who HAVE made the investment will maybe stream it right away but will also buy the disc later for the better quality. I say that as someone who is about to start rewatching S1 of The Last of Us on the Kaleidescape before S2 begins on MAX.

 

[Todd Anderson]

I’ve said this before - but I really don’t know anyone (outside of people in home theater circles) that talks about watching anything on disc - ever. No one talks about playing old discs. No one talks about buying new discs.

It’s all streaming.

Travis, I think your 5% estimate might be too large!

 

[Michael Boeker]

Yeah, you’ve gotta have a player that’s been approved. They run in the $120-$160 range if memory serves.

I tried to save by buying a player used… sold as working but no power cord. By the time I sourced a cord, months had passed. Of course, that player never worked.

Should have stuck with a new player!

From Kaleidescape: "The list of “qualified” drive models are drives that were specifically tested by Kaleidescape’s Engineering team and are known to work. Other drive models may work . . ." I'm using an ASUS drive I bought in 2015 and haven't had any issues.

DVD's, Blu-rays, and UHD Blu-ray (yes, some UHD Blu-rays can be cataloged) that are cataloged via Disc-To-Digital all have the same Kaleidescape purchase price for the highest quality available on Kaleidescape. Saturday I was cleaning out a rental property I own and found over 200 DVD's. I own a bunch of them, wasn't interested in some, but found about 50 to catalog on my Kaleidescape. The upgrade price is mostly $4.50 with some $8.59 and few even more expensive. My average price per movie, including the cost of buying a Kaleidescape Strato V at MSRP, is ~$15/movie. I'm ok with that considering I have about 70 concerts with some now out of print on disc and going for $50 or more on Amazon.

I recently purchase Wicked on Kaleidescape for $14.99 and it is $28.13 on Amazon.