HTS: Always Learning Something New

[Flaquad]

Last week I was snooping around a thrift store for quad records and tapes and found a Pro-Arte Sample Surround CD from 1992 encoded with a Shure HTS encoder. Never heard of this format before. Only found a brief mention of HTS at Mark Anderson's site and only a few articles on the internet. Apparently, it was not around very long. The insert lists 19 other Pro-Arte surround sound titles. Any one here have a HTS decoder? Curious how well it performed with HTS and non-HTS encoded recordings. Thanks.
Tom in Florida

 

[atrocity]

Last week I was snooping around a thrift store for quad records and tapes and found a Pro-Arte Sample Surround CD from 1992 encoded with a Shure HTS encoder. Never heard of this format before.

The logo is very familiar...I think maybe "Saturday Night Live" used it for a season or two.

Interesting liner notes...the people who saw "Fantasia" in 1940 or any high-profile film after 1953 or so might be very surprised to learn that surround sound debuted in 1977! Come to think of it, quad fans might be a bit surprised, too...

 

[JonUrban]

I seem to recall these. Wasn't this the precursor to Dolby Surround?

 

[timbre4]

I dimly recall Shure HTS gear ads in the mags, maybe 1976-77? Never saw any specific encoded software though.

 

[atrocity]

I seem to recall these. Wasn't this the precursor to Dolby Surround?

Seems more likely to be a knockoff encoding scheme designed to be compatible with Dolby decoding.

 

[solaris]

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Shure-HTS-5200-s...-brochure_W0QQitemZ190162191160QQcmdZViewItem