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

• Film portal

• Film score
• Soundtrack
• Sound film
• Sound-on-film
• Movie projector; sound
• List of film formats

References

1. "Movies mixed in Barco's 3D sound". Barco. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
2. "Theatrical Releases in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos". www.dolby.com. Dolby Laboratories. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
3. "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.