Kaleidescape is shrinking its high-end movie servers without cutting back on performance.
The new Mini Terra Prime is the company’s most compact server so far, packing 8TB of solid-state storage and space for around 125 high-bitrate 4K films.
It is aimed at movie fans who want Kaleidescape quality in a smaller, quieter box that can still feed multiple screens at once.
The Mini Terra Prime sits in the same Terra Prime line as the larger servers, but focuses on silence and size.
The 8TB SSD can hold a library of Kaleidescape movie files that are typically around ten times larger than streaming versions, keeping lossless audio and near-lossless video from the studio masters.
Over a 2.5 gigabit Ethernet connection, the company says a 4K title can download in as little as four minutes, so you are not waiting long before pressing play.
Despite the compact footprint, Mini Terra Prime is built to handle serious home cinema setups. It supports up to 25 simultaneous playbacks on a home network without dropping quality, which means different rooms can watch various films or scenes at the same time. Kaleidescape also allows up to four Terra servers to be grouped together; hence, this little box can be part of a much larger library if you keep expanding over time.
The hardware design leans into living room friendliness rather than data centre vibes. Mini Terra Prime shares the same size as Kaleidescape’s Strato M and Strato E players and uses architectural-grade steel with a mosaic vent pattern for natural convection cooling.
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There is no internal fan, so the unit runs silently whether it is on a rack or sitting in a media room. And it can be mounted alongside Strato players for a clean stack. Adding a Terra Prime server to a standalone Strato V, E, or M player unlocks Kaleidescape’s full interface, including the dense list view and the cover shuffle layout that really shine with bigger collections.
Mini Terra Prime is available now through authorised Kaleidescape dealers, which gives home cinema fans a smaller doorway into the company’s premium download-first ecosystem. It doesn’t come cheap, though, as pricing starts at $5995.
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