Issue #121 - May 2008
Marketing news
3D : a new interesting technology for the Goldmund Media Room
3D movies have been experimented for decades in movie theaters with various fortunes. Recently however, serious producers and serious technological improvements have given hope for the future of 3D.
The Goldmund Media Room being a place where films are supposed to be better than in the best movie theaters, Goldmund started last year to investigate this controversial technology.
Today it is clear there is no serious technological difficulty to project a 3D film in a Goldmund Media Room. Double scan speed is only a minor change in Video projection equipment and the currently developed Video gear may integrate it quite easily in their specs.
The source to play for 3D film being mostly computer, this matches fine with the solution of the Goldmund film server, making a seamless transition between 2D and 3D films a reasonable expectation. The final solution is expected to be demonstrated next year.
Only glasses remain problematic. Not for technological reasons. After all, polarized glasses are already quite common. But for style ! Imagine Goldmund aluminum, mechanically grounded perfect glasses !
Just joking, its coming, guys !
Products
Does Alize 7 really exist ?
We heard it mentioned several times already by the Goldmund development team, but it is now more clear that the final D/A used in the Telos 5000 will NOT be an Alize 6 but something far more sophisticated (tentatively called Alize 7 only to differentiate it). Using the same dynamic enhancement principle as the Alize 6 but with a much better jitter rejection and an even higher dynamic range, it should be another step ahead in sound quality.
What the first units of the Telos 5000 are clearly showing is that this new D/A circuit is far too large to be lodged in a Telos 600 and 2500.
However, it is logical to think that a monoral Alize 7 D/A converter unit could be announced before the end of the year, providing a logical step ahead for customers still using a separate D/A after their CD player.
In addition, it would be the ultimate upgrade for a Telos (except the 5000 and the other Telos already upgraded with an Alize6) in a digital driven system.
