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Kaleidescape System gets a 1080p upscaling DVD player

article published on 19 June, 2008

Kaleidescape's home media servers have been a sore topic for the studios. They were the only company granted the license necessary to create a product capable of legally ripping CSS protected DVDs to store them for playback later. Unfortunately, despite the inclusion of managed copy features into the Blu-ray specs, they're not planning to have support for that format until next year. If ... [ read the full article ]

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mrcaseyb
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_ 		19. June 2008 @ 01:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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making it a complete replacement for the older Movie Player 2 which lacks upconverting.
Actually the Movie Player 2 could up-convert to 1080i as could the previous generation KPlayer 2500.
What these new players offer is scaling to 1080p using a much higher quality video processor than previous KPlayers.
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iluvendo
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_ 		19. June 2008 @ 02:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
too expensive
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vurbal
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_ 		19. June 2008 @ 04:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Quote:
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making it a complete replacement for the older Movie Player 2 which lacks upconverting.
Actually the Movie Player 2 could up-convert to 1080i as could the previous generation KPlayer 2500.
What these new players offer is scaling to 1080p using a much higher quality video processor than previous KPlayers.

After a little research it seems you're absolutely right, and now so is the article.

Thanks for the correction
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error5
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Originally posted by iluvendo:
 too expensive
You have to expect a price tag like this when you're using the Gennum VXP Processor chip:

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/public/Produ...p_overview.html
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7thsinger
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3 product reviews
_ 		19. June 2008 @ 08:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Man...that's salty!

Count me out.
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goodswipe
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_ 		19. June 2008 @ 10:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Kaleidescape is only for the life styles of the rich and famous.

Is that Robin Leach I here?
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