ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals a clear view of responses to pressures on the technology, art, and business at hand, while limiting the subject to the making of mainstream Hollywood films in the period. In the movie theater, playback technology for film audio was fundamentally an analog medium until the middle 1990s, excepting a few digital circuits in the hardware of each system. A fairly long-standing tradition in the Los Angeles film theater scene is the convention of having the Los Angeles Times promote some area of Southern California living prior to the feature. Digital rerecording is able to capture an overwhelming amount of data by storing a final audio mix on magneto-optical discs. In order to accurately record something as long as a movie, Dolby employs sophisticated techniques of data compression borrowed from recent satellite communication technology.
