(April 21, 2022) Two giants of the high-end home theater world, Kaleidescape and Keith Yates Design (KYD), have announced a new strategic partnership intended to further promote reference-grade home theater experiences. The marriage of Kaleidescape's tantalizing lineup of extraordinary movie players and KYD's award-winning acoustics and room design work isn't necessarily new, as KYD regularly specifies Kaleidescape systems for clients that range from major directors and producers to sound specialists and cinematographers. This latest partnership, however, finds Kaleidescape's content team gaining access to a KYD-designed movie lab to ensure all movies released on its movie store deliver a world-class reference experience.
“Kaleidescape makes the industry’s best movie servers and players, and we use the system for all our calibrations when we do quality control on a commissioned KYD home theater,” said Keith Yates, president and chief creative officer, Keith Yates Design. “A KYD designed and engineered cinema experience is enhanced and further resolved with the performance advantages only available with Kaleidescape’s higher fidelity video source material and lossless audio, making everything in the theater optimized to deliver the best performance.”
Kaleidescape's CEO, Tayloe Stansbury, adds, “Keith Yates Design and Kaleidescape have a common goal in delivering a deeply inspired immersive theater experience that is unique, customized, and shapes the entertainment space. KYD’s design, combined with Kaleidescape, delivers unrivaled acoustical movie magic, which is why we are working with them to design the Kaleidescape Movie Lab at our corporate headquarters.”
In celebration of this new partnership, every KYD theater commissioned with a Kaleidescape system will come with a unique, one-of-a-kind, bound book highlighting the design and engineering of the KYD theater. “This partnership is a natural fit as KYD and Kaleidescape are aligned to provide the best-in-class private cinema experience, one our customers will be proud to commemorate by putting this book on display,” Yates concludes.