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Kaleidescape, Inc. is an American multimedia company based in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2001, it designs multi-room Streaming media server systems that store and play back video and audio content (such as movies, television shows, and music) to movie players that can be connected to televisions or projectors.
Kaleidescape originally focused on building home theater movie servers that could store digital copies of customers’ DVD-Video and Blu-ray collections. Its first movie server was introduced in 2003 and allowed customers to Ripping DVD content onto a series of hard drives, utilize the company's movie guide database to identify and sort films, and then present the customer's movie collection in an onscreen user interface.
In 2004, the DVD Copy Control Association, the licensor of Content Scramble System (CSS), the technology for the copy control of DVDs, sued Kaleidescape for breach of contract. The DVD CCA alleged that its CSS License did not permit Kaleidescape's movie servers to serve DVDs from copies on hard disk. In June 2014, Kaleidescape and DVD CCA reached a settlement agreement and as of 2019, the company had license agreements with 29 studios to allow the purchase and download of content from its movie store. The case, although only for breach of contract and not a copyright case, was considered by some to be an important recent test of fair use precedent, given advancements in technology and the digital media rights field.
Through Kaleidescape's online movie store, which launched in beta in 2012 and officially opened in May 2013, users are able to add high-definition and standard definition movies to their collections instantly. Cinema One allows the storage and playback of up to 100 Blu-ray quality, 600 DVD quality or 6,000 CD quality titles.
In November 2020, Tayloe Stansbury was appointed Kaleidescape's new CEO. Norma Garcia-Muro also joined the company as vice president of marketing.
Kaleidescape expanded into theaters in 2024 by sellings its hardware to cinema owners. Cinemas use the technology to access older movie titles, with payments for viewing the titles being paid directly to the studios by the theater.
The Terra also provides computing and caching services to enhance the performance of the Strato players.
The movie store's initial title offerings included a multi-year license agreement with Warner Bros. The movie store expanded its availability to Canada in September 2013. In October 2013, Kaleidescape announced a multi-year studio agreement with Lionsgate, resulting in the addition of approximately 2,000 titles to the store. As of 2021, the company had license agreements with a number of studios, including all the major movie studios, and had licensed over 12,000 DVD, UHD, and Blu-ray-quality movies, and over 2,000 TV seasons.
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