Help create a "Surround Sound Pt II" Timeline

I'd like to create a timeline of the second phase of surround music releases. Something like:

1997 - DTS releases first DTS CD (info)
1999 - Sony releases first SACD (info)
1999 - WB releases first DVD-A (info)

but more detailed, with exact dates for important releases of titles and equipment. Something for posterity.

It would be great if you all could help by adding things to this thread via replys and I will compile all of the info, updating the second post here to create the timeline, then make it a web page here. A real community effort.

Don't count LaserDiscs, as those were primarily video. Let's start with DTS/Brad Miller and go forward from there. We can tell the history, the ups, and then the spiral down, of the surround sound music movement of the turn of the century.

Anyone want to help?

<timeline starts here>

October 3, 2000: Big Phat Band "Swinging for the Fences" released by Silverline (FIRST DVD-A)

August 19, 2003: Sony releases 15 Bob Dylan albums on SACD

Happy to contribute. I just came across a mint 4 page I WANT MY DTS! 5.1 Marketing & Sales brochure from 1997? If you don't have it I'll scan it.

Should we go back to the first Dolby Surround CDs that were released? ... Tomita comes to mind, and some of the RCA quadradisc titles were released as Dolby Surround CDs as well.

timbre4 said:

Happy to contribute. I just came across a mint 4 page I WANT MY DTS! 5.1 Marketing & Sales brochure from 1997? If you don't have it I'll scan it.

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I know for a fact we released the first title in 1996 and it was!!!!!
Surround Sound for the Millennium
The disc we made to promote that box! Also were the Mystic Mood titles and the 3 disc set Brad made of sound effects -Movie Tracks. I might be able to find the timeline they were available, but it was all within a month or so. We sold all these at CES in 1996. We walked around CES in 1995 with covers of the titles we were gonna release the next year(we hoped) and these were mockups of Days of Future Passed and Claptons 461. The mockup for DOFP is still here on a wall.

Mike- Yes, I even have some of those Tomita DPL CDs. I'll check the dates on them.

Tad - I knew you'd have some stuff. 1996!! Wow, I forgot it was so long ago.

THNAKS GUYS

Here's a gem...

The Home Video Album CD on RCA Victor 60354-2-RC issued 1989. Remixed for Dolby Surround and features CD+G (Compact Disc+Graphics)! @:

I'll make a scan ASAP...

timbre4 said:

Here's a gem...

The Home Video Album CD on RCA Victor 60354-2-RC issued 1989. Remixed for Dolby Surround and features CD+G (Compact Disc+Graphics)! @:

I'll make a scan ASAP...

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Would you believe I have that one too! It has a yellow cover, right? I'll dig it out as well.

Quadtrade issue 1, July 1994

I'm pretty sure I bought my first DTS CD's at Ken Crane's Laserdisc in 1995.
Couldn't play them -- cheapest DTS decoder was $1200.
They had one at Atlantic Music in Costa Mesa for a demo.

Also:
2000 -- CES demo of first multichannel SACD -- Tubular Bells / Mike Oldfield
2000? CES demo of first 10.2 surround system at Alexis Park (Herbie Hancock track)

eggplant said:

I'm pretty sure I bought my first DTS CD's at Ken Crane's Laserdisc in 1995.
Couldn't play them -- cheapest DTS decoder was $1200.
They had one at Atlantic Music in Costa Mesa for a demo.

Also:
2000 -- CES demo of first multichannel SACD -- Tubular Bells / Mike Oldfield
2000? CES demo of first 10.2 surround system at Alexis Park (Herbie Hancock track)

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eggplant
DTS had only the "purple box", a demo unit in 1995.

JonUrban said:

Would you believe I have that one too! It has a yellow cover, right? I'll dig it out as well.

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Months later....

Yes! The yellow cover.

Here's the front and back covers of a Dolby Surround cd from 1995. I also enclosed a blurb from within the cd booklet: