Kaleidescape
Kaleidescape Releases Two 1080p Players: 
Kaleidescape is pleased to announce availability of the 1080p Player and the 1080p Mini Player. These new Movie Players create beautiful high definition video from ordinary DVDs, providing a viewing experience that rivals Blu-ray.
Sharing a common underlying design, the 1080p Player and 1080p Mini Player offer many new video and audio performance features:
- 1080p Output - The embedded Sigma Designs™ (Gennum™) VXP® video processor upscales standard definition DVD movies to 1080p resolution across an HDMI™ connection, without the added cost and complexity of an external scaler.
- Content-Aware Video Processing - The 1080p Movie Player adapts its video processing to the type of content being viewed to achieve results that are impossible for an external scaler. For example, the onscreen display (OSD) with its sharp edges and high contrast is processed differently than movies, which contain motion and natural colors. Information in Kaleidescape’s extensive Movie Guide database is also used to tailor the viewing experience, for example, to zoom letterboxed movies to fill a 16:9 display or to relocate subtitles for optimal viewing. A new option provides the ability to automatically detect and expand 4:3 format movies to fill the entire screen of a 16:9 display.
- 10-bit 4:4:4 Color Processing - Greater color resolution and depth and improvements in how shadow detail and color linearity are handled produce accurate color and grayscale, from full white to black. This provides a more authentic movie-viewing experience with natural skin tones, nuanced shadows, and a lack of color artifacts.
- Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing and Reverse 3:2/2:2 Pulldown - The 1080p Movie Player detects whether source content originated as film, and selects the most appropriate deinterlacing method for detailed and clear video and smooth motion.
- Improved Onscreen Display (OSD) Imaging - Deinterlacing improvements result in fewer tearing artifacts and much cleaner cover art motion. Greater color resolution and better scaling create a crisper OSD image, particularly with text. Transitions to and from high definition content are now glitch-free.
- Improved Audio Processing - Whether watching a movie or listening to music, audio fidelity is improved.
- Automatic Video Configuration - Video configuration is automatic, making it easy to achieve the ideal viewing experience with minimal setup. The 1080p Movie Player detects and operates at the highest available resolution over HDMI. The degree of video sharpness can be optimized for the installation environment. Though automatic video settings are appropriate for most installations, the video configuration may be adjusted by the installer if necessary.
Tags: 1080p, HDMI, Kaleidescape, VXP