4K - 8K Resolution and/or Dolby Atmos/DTSX Content Reviews

[Movie2099]

Yeah, that's my #1 complaint of K-Scape. Since they are charging a lot of money for the Media Player already, why not let people use their own hard drives?

All my storage drives are NVMe SSD now. I don't even use the old HDD anymore.

So I bet K-scape charges a lot more money if you opt for SSD, instead of the old HDD.

There is no question and ZERO debate that K-scape charges an insane amount for storage space. Reason they won't open it up to have your own storage is because they have very strict contracts with the movie studios for their metadata. They know if people were to download to their own devices, they would just pirate the movie online to everybody. Reason Apple doesn't offer players with storage space to allow you download their movies from their servers. It's the movie studios placing protections with these companies.

K-scape uses SSD's in some of their devices. Price is more than normal HDD's, but not too much more. Also, the people who do put in the massive 80TB+, want to have instant access to everything they purchase. If you are good with only having less than 100 movies available at one time and are ok waiting 8-10mins for a movie to download, then you would just go with the least amount of storage space. There are options available.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

If you are good with only having less than 100 movies available at one time and are ok waiting 8-10mins for a movie to download, then you would just go with the least amount of storage space.

For that kind of money, I think most people would have a problem with that kind of limitation.

I get the anti-pirate measures on their HDD, but they didn't have to charge that much for it.

120TB HDD hardware is about $4K in cost (12TB ~ $400). I can see an upcharge. But $35K is a ripoff.

I don't see K-scape being more than a small niche market because of the huge upfront cost of the Player + huge upfront cost of the HDD-Storage + paying $30 for each new movie.

 

[Movie2099]

For that kind of money, I think most people would have a problem with that kind of limitation.

I get the anti-pirate measures on their HDD, but they didn't have to charge that much for it.

120TB HDD hardware is about $4K in cost (12TB ~ $400). I can see an upcharge. But $35K? That's a total ripoff.

I don't see K-scape being more than a small niche market because of the huge upfront cost of the Player + huge upfront cost of the HDD-Storage + paying $30 for each new movie.

Yeah, as long as the K-scape stays where they're at pricing wise for the hardware, it will only be a niche system. But plenty of home theater enthusiasts purchase it. Anybody with a decent to very nice home theater setup is going to own one. Whether it be an older one or brand new. Grand majority of people that actually have a dedicated theater, don't want to own physical discs any longer. They want to sit and pick from a library and have the best quality out there. Which K-scape gives them that.

Price of actual movies is the same as physical disc or better. A good amount of new releases are cheaper than physical disc upon release. I just got an email for special pricing for Project Hail Mary $25. My physical disc will be around $28 for the normal case but if you want the Steelbook, it will be close to $35-$40.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Anybody with a decent to very nice home theater setup is going to own one (K-scape).

Not everyone with a nice HT is going to buy K-scape.

Not everyone with money is going to buy everything.

People will buy what they BELIEVE in.