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The Apple TV killer for AV nerds.

A $179 living-room AI media hub. On-device. Air-gapped. One query across every streaming service and your NAS.

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Kino — a matte-black cube with mesh-grille top fan, side ventilation, and USB-C / USB-A / HDMI 2.1a / Gigabit ports on the rear
RK3588 8nm 6 TOPS NPU Qwen3-7B INT4 Dolby Vision 5/7/8 HDMI 2.1a

On-device intelligence

Air-gapped AI.Your library, your business.

Qwen3-7B INT4 runs locally on the 6 TOPS NPU. Pull the ethernet cable — voice search, metadata, upscaling all keep working. Nothing leaves the box.

Macro photograph of the RK3588 silicon die with Qwen3-7B INT4 etched on the package, glowing softly amber from the on-device inference

Cross-library search

Ask in English. Find anywhere.

"A 90-minute thriller with a twist." Returns three results — across Plex, Jellyfin, Netflix, Disney+, your NAS — in one query.

Person on a sofa pointing a remote at a 65-inch OLED TV showing search UI with three film posters

Real-time upscaling

1080p in. 4K HDR out.

On-device super-resolution INT4 upscales legacy 1080p — classic films, vintage anime, old documentaries — to 4K HDR in real time.

Side-by-side comparison: 1080p film still on the left half, sharp 4K HDR on the right half, with a vertical slider line dividing them

Privacy

Never phones home.By default.

No telemetry. No cloud queries. No library scans. Only OTA update checks leave the device — and you can turn them off.

Matte-black Kino cube with the ethernet cable partially unplugged and hanging in mid-air, the front LED still glowing soft amber

Open at launch

3 years OTA.Engine open-source.

The on-device AI engine ships open-source at launch. Even if Kino disappears, your unit keeps working. Apache 2.0.

Close-up of a laptop screen displaying the kino-engine LICENSE file with Apache 2.0 header, with the Kino cube blurred in the background

Built like AV equipment.

Apple TV-grade hardware. Premium streaming-box specs. Half the price of a Shield Pro.

SoC
RK3588 8nmOcta-core ARM, big.LITTLE
NPU
6 TOPSQwen3-7B INT4 @ 4–8 t/s
Memory
8 GB LPDDR4X64 GB eMMC storage
Display
HDMI 2.1a4K@120 · 8K@60 passthrough
HDR
Dolby Vision 5/7/8HDR10+ · HLG · BT.2020
Audio
Atmos · DTS:XTrueHD · DTS-HD MA passthrough
Codecs
AV1 · HEVCVP9 · H.264 · AVS3
Connectivity
Wi-Fi 6 · GigabitUSB 3.2 ×2 · USB-C
Engine
Apache 2.0Open-source @ launch · 3-yr OTA

Engineering targets. Measured values land in the public BOM tear-down PDF and Beta long-form reviews before launch (Q3 2026).

Questions, answered.

New brand. What if Kino folds in a year?

Kino's on-device AI engine weights ship open-source at launch under Apache 2.0. Even if Kino disappears, your unit keeps working — fully local, no cloud dependency. We commit to 3 years of paid OTA + indefinite security maintenance. AVSForum and r/htpc Beta members co-publish a public bug-tracker timeline.

Apple TV 4K is $129. Why pay $179 for Kino?

Apple TV's Siri runs in the cloud — every voice query, viewing pattern, library scan goes to Apple. Kino's Qwen3-7B INT4 runs on-device at 4–8 tokens/s on RK3588's 6 TOPS NPU. Pull the ethernet cable, you can still ask "find me a 90-minute thriller" across your Plex library. tvOS does AirPlay better than us; we do edge AI better than tvOS.

I already own Nvidia Shield Pro / Zidoo / Dune HD. Worth switching?

Hardcore disc-collector with a 7.1.4 Atmos rig + Profile 7 originals + dual-HDMI separation? Honestly no — Zidoo and Dune HD beat us at engineering purity. If you're like 80% of AV enthusiasts whose content is now streaming + NAS digital + occasional UHD rip, Kino's on-device AI metadata + cross-library semantic search is a real upgrade.

Dolby Vision Profile 7 dual-layer BD passthrough?

Yes — Profile 5/7/8 full certification (Dolby Lab cert pending, completing before launch). Profile 7 dual-layer BD passes through identically to Zidoo Z9X / Egreat A11. AVR routing via HDMI 2.1a.

Privacy — what data leaves the box?

Default mode: nothing. The entire AI inference pipeline (Qwen3-7B, semantic embeddings, metadata scraping, subtitle translation, upscaling) runs on-device. Streaming-service login tokens stay in their respective apps' encrypted stores. Only OTA update checks (a daily HTTPS HEAD to our update server) leave the device — and you can disable those.

What's the roadmap?

v1 (Q3 2026): everything described above + AVSForum / r/htpc Beta + 3-year OTA. v1.5 (2027): diaspora-language OTT integration + simplified eldercare mode + projector daisy-chain. v2 (2028): optional Pro variant with built-in 1TB SSD + native NAS protocols ($299–349). Not in roadmap: physical Blu-ray drives, OTT licensing, our own content.

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