List of film sound systems
The following is a list of film sound systems.
Explanation
- The year shown may represent a patent or other developmental milestone rather than the first use in public.
- Technologically identical systems may have been promoted under different trade names by different commercial entities.
Sound systems
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 12-Track Digital Sound |
| 2015 | 2-Track Digital Sound (REMBS) |
| 1953 | 3 Channel Stereo |
| 1953 | 4-Track Stereo (CinemaScope) |
| 1955 | 6-Track Stereo (Todd-AO and compatibles) |
| 1955 | 70 mm 6-Track |
| 1934 | Afifa Ton-Kopie |
| 1950 | AGA Sound System |
| 1909 | Animatophone |
| 2010 | Auro 11.1[1] |
| 1928 | Aurofone |
| 2015 | AuroMax |
| 1943 | B.A.F. Sound System |
| 1907 | Biophone |
| 1938 | Blue Seal Noiseless Recording |
| 1929 | Bristolphone |
| 2001 | Broadway Surround |
| 1909 | Cameraphone |
| 1921 | Case |
| 1990 | CDS |
| 1974 | Chace Surround |
| 1905 | Chronophone |
| 1910 | Chronomegaphone |
| 1990 | Cinema Digital Sound |
| 1907 | Cinematophone |
| 1904 | Cineophone |
| 1904 | Cinephone Lubin |
| 1952 | Cinerama 7-Track |
| 1911 | Cinephonograph |
| 1949 | Cinesound |
| 1904 | Cinophone |
| 2010 | Datasat Digital Sound |
| 1923 | De Forest Phonofilm |
| 2002 | Digitrac Digital Audio System |
| 1975 | Dolby Stereo |
| 2012 | Dolby Atmos[2] |
| 1992 | Dolby Digital |
| 1999 | Dolby Digital EX |
| 1987 | Dolby Stereo SR |
| 2009 | Dolby Surround 7.1 |
| 1993 | DTS |
| 1996 | DTS 70 mm |
| 2001 | DTS-8 |
| 1999 | DTS-ES |
| 1994 | DTS-Stereo |
| 2015 | DTS:X[3] |
| 1996 | DX Stereo |
| 1940 | Fantasound |
| 1929 | Filmtone |
| 1998 | Full Range Recording System |
| 1920 | Gaumontphone |
| 1898 | Hollmann–Eaves |
| 1973 | IMAX 6-Track |
| 2014 | IMAX 12-Track |
| 1933 | International Recording Engineers System |
| 1992 | Iwerks Digital Audio |
| 1894 | Kinetophone (Dickson) |
| 1888 | Kinetophone (Edison) |
| 1958 | Kinopanorama 9-Track |
| 1913 | Kinoplasticon |
| 1956 | Klangfilm Magnetocord |
| 1954 | Klangfilm-Stereocord |
| 1990 | LC-Concept Digital Sound |
| 1969 | Li-Westrex System |
| 1979 | Kintek Stereo |
| 1938 | Magnaphone Western Electric |
| 1962 | Magnetocord |
| 1988 | Matrix Surround |
| 1904 | Mono |
| 1925 | Movietone |
| 1938 | Optiphone |
| 1964 | Ortiphone |
| 1907 | Oskar Messter |
| 1949 | Perspecta Stereo |
| 1933 | Phillips Sound |
| 1900 | Phono-Bio-Taleaux |
| 1900 | Phono-Cinema-Theatre |
| 1921 | Phono-Kinema |
| 1922 | Phonofilm |
| 1921 | Photokinema |
| 1925 | Photophone (RCA) |
| 1914 | Polyscope |
| 1936 | Pulvári System |
| 1970 | Quadrophonic |
| 1975 | Quintaphonic |
| 1993 | Sony Dynamic Digital Sound (SDDS) |
| 1974 | Sensurround |
| 1992 | Servotron Stereo |
| 1985 | Sonics |
| 1996 | Sonics-DDP |
| 1994 | Sonix |
| 1928 | Sonora-Bristolphone |
| 1977 | Sound 360° |
| 1992 | Sound Trax Surround Stereo |
| 1995 | Soundelux |
| 1965 | Spectra-Stereo |
| 1949 | Stereo |
| 1978 | Super Space Sound |
| 1929 | Synchrotone |
| 1939 | Synthetic |
| 1932 | Systemi A. Shorin |
| 1940 | Système Cottet |
| 1933 | Tagephone |
| 1983 | THX Ltd. |
| 2005 | TMH Labs 10.2 Channel Sound |
| 1928 | Tobis (Tonbild Syndicat) |
| 1922 | Tri-Ergon Sound System 68 mm |
| 1984 | Ultra Stereo |
| 1938 | Variray Blue Seal Recording |
| 1935 | Visatone |
| 1980 | Vistasonic |
| 1925 | Vitagraph |
| 1926 | Vitaphone |
| 1911 | Vivaphone |
| 1921 | Western Electric |
| 1925 | Westrex (Fox & Western Electric) |
| 1938 | Wicmar and Blue Seal Noiseless Recording |
See also
References
- ^ "Movies mixed in Barco's 3D sound". Barco. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "Theatrical Releases in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos". www.dolby.com. Dolby Laboratories. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "DTS:X Cinematic Releases | DTS". dts.com.
Resources
- Sound mix list on the Internet Movie Database
- Index of early sound films of the silent era, from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett
- The origins of the Firm "Tobis-Klang" The first release that used this system was the partially silent German film Melodie der Welt.