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History of Sound In Chronological Order

History of Sound 8

1985 to 2011

1985 Producer Guild inaugurated TF Dolby introduces the "SR" Spectral Recording system.

1986 Focusrite modules came on the scene along with Dolby's SR demonstrations put an end to the death of analogue predictions.

1986 The R-DAT format adds to confusion, and also we saw the first digital consoles appeared on the market.

1986 The R-DAT recorders are introduced in Japan and Dr. Gunther Theile gave a prescribe description of a novel stereo "sphere microphone."

1987 Dolby SR in production. LEF Digidesign markets "Sound Tools," a Macintosh-based digital workstation using DAT as its source and storage medium.
1988 CD becomes dominant medium. R-DAT popularity in small studios increases. Studer and Tascam announce DASH multitracks.

1989 Dolby S brings new generation of inexpensive 24 tracks to use. Commercially successful recordable CD systems.

1990 R-DATs securely established at pro level. Time code R-DATs introduced.

1990 The BT invention of ISDN telephone links are offered for high-end studio use.

1990 Dolby proposes a 5-channel surround-sound scheme for theatre systems, and the write-once CD-R becomes a commercial reality.  

1990 - 1991 3M introduces 996 mastering tape, a 13 dB improvement over Scotch 111.  

1991 Wolfgang Ahnert presents, in a binaural simulation, the first digitally enhanced modeling of an acoustic space.  

1991 Alesis unveils the ADAT, the first "affordable" digital multitrack recorder. And Apple prologue the "QuickTime" multimedia format.

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1991 Ampex introduces 499 mastering tape.  

1992 Siemens audio tries digital console again.  

1992 Recordable CD's become commonplace.

1992 became the year of the mini-disc.  

1992 Alesis ships first ADAT multitracks and the Digital workstation mania/Ned folds.  

1992 The Analogue revival was in full swing and the Video people decided on digital for everything.  

1992 The Philips DCC and Sony's MiniDisc, using digital audio data-reduction, are offered to consumers as record/play hardware and software. T

1992 The Nagra D is introduced as a self-contained battery-operated field recorder using Nagra's own 4-channel 24-bit open-reel format.
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1993 In the first extensive use of "distance recording" via ISDN, producer Phil Ramone records the "Duets" album with Frank Sinatra. Mackie unveils the first "affordable" 8-bus analogue console.

1994 Yamaha unveils the ProMix 01, the first "affordable" digital multitrack console.

1995 The first "solid-state" audio recorder, the Nagra ARES-C, is introduced. It is a battery-operated field unit recording on PCMCIA cards using MPEG-2 audio compression.  

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1996 Iomega debuts high-capacity "Jazz" and "Zip" drives, useful as removable storage media for hard-disk recording. 

1996 Record labels began to add multimedia files to new releases, calling them "enhanced CDs." Experimental digital recordings are made at 24 bits and 96 kHz.  

1997 DVD videodiscs and players are introduced. An audio version with 6 channel surround sound is expected to eventually supplant the CD as the chosen playback medium in the .  

1998 The Winter Olympics open with a performance of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," played and sung by synchronizing live audio feeds from five continents with an orchestra and conductor at the Olympic stadium in Nagano, Japan, using satellite and the BT ISDN technology.  

1998 Also saw the Golden Anniversary celebration held in New York on 11th of March, the exact date of the first AES meeting in 1948, with ten of the original members present.  

1998 MP-3 players for downloading MP-3 Audio music from the Internet appeared.

1998  Jonell Polansky produced the first 24-bit 48-track digital recording session at Ocean Way on Nashville's Music Row.

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1998  On August 6, the first HDTV set went on sale for £5,499 to the public in San Diego. The same year a 56-inch Panasonic set that was developed at the company's research and development centre in San Diego and manufactured in Tijuana.

1998 The Last Broadcast premiered Oct. 19 as "the first desktop feature film" produced and exhibited digitally, co-sponsored by Texas Instruments using its DLP digital cinema projector.

1999  TiVo and Philips announced March 31 in a press release shipments of "the first personal TV system." 1999 The 5 largest record companies in the U.S. controlled 84% of the 755 million albums sold in the U.S.   

1999 26.3% by Seagram's Universal  owns MCA, Polygram 16.2% by Sony Music owns Columbia, 16% by Bertelsmann's BMG now owns RCA Victor, 15.7% by Time Warner's Warner Music, 9.4% by EMI.

2000  1st January.  Disney released Fantasia/2000 in the IMAX film format with 6 channel digital sound.

2001 23rd  Oct. Apple Computer introduced the iPod portable music player.

2001 VHS sales and rental - $16.8 billion deducting rental.  VHS Rentals $7.02 billion  and VHS Sales $9.78 billion  Combined. Check it out on Google http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=450524

2002  Annual world production of DVD-Video discs surpassed VHS cassettes, according to IRMA industry statistics:.  

2002 VHS rentals sagged 25 percent from the $7.02 billion taken in the year before. According to VSDA's VidTrac program, the DVD rental-revenue figure represented 891.4 million turns vs. 444.8 million turns in 2001. VHS turns reached 2 billion, but, overall, were down by 23.1 percent from the previous year.   Digital Nation - By Gary Dretzka

2003  DVD Video rentals increased 51.2% and VHS rentals dropped 29% from the previous year. 2003 DVD-Video sales increased 42.2% to $12.1 billion and VHS sales dropped 34.8% to $2.4 billion, according to Video Store Magazine.

2011 The first HD car radio was sold in January. 5 in 1 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, according to the iBiquity Digital Corporation press release. 2011 January saw the biggest revolution in radio since the advent of FM broadcasting more than fifty years ago."

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