Award-winning 4K movie player.
Delivering lossless audio and reference-quality 4K video, the Kaleidescape Strato E movie player brings the cinematic experience home with exceptional simplicity. Whether used as a standalone player or as part of a larger Kaleidescape system, it provides stunning performance that grows with your entertainment needs.

Key Features
• Reference-quality video for every 4K display, with support for SDR, HDR10, and Dolby Vision.
• Lossless spatial audio that reveals every detail, from crystal-clear dialogue to immersive sound effects.
• Standalone convenience with 480GB of built-in solid-state storage.
• Scalable flexibility that allows you to add movie servers and additional players throughout your home.

Uncompromising Picture Quality
The Kaleidescape Strato E movie player delivers breathtaking 4K playback in SDR, HDR10, and Dolby Vision, ensuring every movie is presented with remarkable clarity, colour, and depth. Advanced upscaling technology also enhances HD and standard-definition content, helping your entire movie collection look its very best on modern 4K displays.

Sound That Puts You Inside the Story
Strato movie players provide lossless audio, unlocking the full performance potential of your processor, amplifiers, and speakers. Support for Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD, DTS:X, and DTS-HD Master Audio creates an immersive, cinema-quality soundstage throughout your room.
The result is clearer dialogue, greater dynamic range, and subtle details that streaming services often miss, allowing you to experience every soundtrack exactly as filmmakers intended.

High-Bitrate Movies Without Compromise
With movie bitrates reaching up to 100 Mbps, Kaleidescape delivers exceptional picture quality far beyond conventional streaming experiences. Movies are downloaded directly to local storage, ensuring smooth, uninterrupted playback with no buffering and no quality degradation caused by internet congestion.
Unlike physical Blu-ray discs, which are constrained by file-size limitations, Kaleidescape optimises content from studio mezzanine files to maximise video quality and preserve every visual detail.

Designed for Simplicity
As Kaleidescape’s entry-level 4K movie player, Strato E makes premium home cinema accessible and effortless. When used as a standalone player, its internal solid-state drive stores approximately six high-bitrate movies and features an intuitive interface specifically designed for browsing smaller libraries with ease.
Thanks to gigabit Ethernet connectivity, movies can be downloaded in minutes. After playback, titles become eligible for automatic removal after 48 hours, freeing up space for new content. Purchased movies can always be downloaded again whenever you wish.

A System That Grows With You
Your entertainment needs may evolve, and Kaleidescape Strato E movie player is designed to evolve with them.
Add a Terra Prime movie server to unlock the full Kaleidescape experience, including larger movie libraries, multiple playback zones, and on-demand access throughout your home. Additional Strato V, Strato E, or Strato M players can be added to create a seamless whole-home entertainment system.
A grouped system also enables Kaleidescape’s iconic Covers View interface, advanced library management, parental controls, and the dedicated child remote, creating a personalised and family-friendly viewing experience.

Entertainment Wherever Life Takes You
The compact form factor of Strato E makes it easy to enjoy your favourite movies beyond the living room. Take a selection of your purchased films to a holiday home, share a movie night with friends and family, or enjoy premium entertainment wherever you travel.
Because movies are stored locally, once downloaded, they can be enjoyed without an internet connection while maintaining the same pristine picture and sound quality.

Compact, Elegant Installation
Small enough to tuck discreetly behind a television or place neatly on a shelf, Strato E integrates effortlessly into almost any environment. For more customised installations, official Kaleidescape rack-mount shelves and wall-mounting solutions are also available.
Powerful, flexible, and beautifully simple, Strato E delivers the Kaleidescape experience in its most accessible form, bringing reference-quality cinema closer than ever to home.

Specifications

Dimensions (W x H x D) – 16.3cm x 3cm x 16.3cm
Weight – 0.73kg
Power – Max consumption: 13W. Typical: 4.3W, High power standby: 3.8W, Lower power standby: 0.50W, External power adapter with detachable line cord: 100-240VAC to 12VDC @ 5A, 60W, isolated ground
Network – Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Base-T)
Other Connection – USB (for disc cataloguing)
Environment – Operating: 41 to 95°F (5 to 35°C), Storage: -4 to 140°F (-20 to 60°C), Relative humidity: 20 to 80% (operation) 5 to 90% (storage), Maximum operating altitude: 10,000ft (3,048m), Heat output: 44 BTU/hr (13W) max, Airflow: none
Ventilation – Minimum 1in (2.5cm) space at the front, Minimum 2in (5cm) space at the rear
Mounts (sold separately) – Rack shelf with faceplates is available for mounting 1 or 2 (centred or side-by-side) Strato E players in a 19in rack, 1U space, Wall mount available for mounting behind TV displays
Certifications – CSA 62368-1, IEC 62368-1, FCC CLASS B, CE, AU/NZ Regulatory Compliance Mark (RCM), RoHS Compliant
Video Output – HDMI 2.1, HDCP 2.3 copy protection
Video Display Formats – Resolutions: 2160p60/50/30/25/24, 1080p60/50/24, 1080i60/50, 720p60/50, 576i, 576p, 480i, 480p, Chroma: 4:4:4 8-bit up to 2160p60, 4:4:4 10/12-bit up to 2160p30, 4:2:2 12-bit up to 2160p60, 4:2:0 8/10/12-bit at 2160p50/60 only, Colour spaces: BT.2020, BT.709, BT.601, Aspect ratios: 1.78:1 and 2.35:1 (CinemaScape), automatic or user interface selectable
HDR: Dolby Vision (standard and low-latency) and HDR10 (SMPTE ST 2084, 2086), Movie playback up to 4K; UI in 2K
Audio Outputs – HDMI 2.1 (combined with video)
Audio Formats – Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, Dolby Digital, DTS Digital Surround, Dolby MAT PCM, PCM (up to 7.1ch, 96kHz/24-bit)
Storage – Standalone: Internal 480GB SSD (available storage for approximately 6 Kaleidescape high-bitrate movies)
Media: Kaleidescape movie store downloads: 4K Dolby Vision, 4K HDR10, 4K SDR, HD, and SD quality, View recent HD additions for Strato E in the movie store, Current customers can also view their Strato E compatibility page in the movie store