1. Artist
2. Name of Video or Movie
3. Quadraphonic Format (SQ, QS)
4. Catalog number if a Video
5. Country of origin (U.S., U.K., etc.)       
8. Any comments that might be helpful.


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DAVID BOWIE -
     Serious Moonlight. Pioneer PA-84-097 (Laserdisc.)

LIONEL HAMPTON -
     Las Vegas Concert.

DOLLY PARTON -
     Dolly Parton's London Concert. RCA CS11E-V105606  (CED Videodisc)

MARYLIN CHAMBERS -
     Insatiable II. Image Intertainment  (Laserdisc)

{Most of these titles were released on Laserdisc and CED Videodisc. Only Insatiable II
 has the SQ/Tate logo on it. These titles may have been released later in VHS
 or Beta video formats when HI-FI audio was implemented on video tapes.}


From MCS Review Vol.6 No.2
Autumn 1984
Report on Summer Consumer Elec. Show

SQ/Tate's Modest Proposals

At the Conrad Hilton, Gary Reber, president of the Tate Audio affiliate,
Tate-Reber Productions, spoke about recent and future developments
associated with SQ/Tate Surround Stereo technology. Given that Fosgate
Research is the sole Tate System licensee for producing home equipment,
Reber's report that production of the Fosgate Model lOlA Tate II had
reached 100 units per month was encouraging. He also announced that
Fosgate Research, Inc., was in the process of moving to a location near
Salt Lake City and into a larger production facility.

The Tate II has been especially well-received as a surround-sound
decoder for video, and it is in video applications where use of SQ/Tate
technology is being most actively promoted. As most MCS Review readers
know, a larger number of pre-recorded videocassette tapes contain the
surround-encoded Dolby Stereo soundtracks which are transferred from
35mm optical movie prints. However, Reber pointed out that Dolby
Laboratories is licensed only to use the Tate surround stereo technology
for professional motion picture production and exhibition. For home
video products Tate Audio is proposing that SQ, not Dolby MP, be adopted
as the encoding standard, and the technique for achieving this could
have Implications for theater sound as well.

Tate Audio wants film producers to make their original multichannel
soundtrack mixdowns differently than now done, creating five full-range
channels (left front, center front, right front, right back and left
back) and a single subwoofer channel, instead of the four full-range
channels (Lf, Cf, Rf and Surround) and two subwoofer channels developed
now for Dolby's stereo systems for films With independent Lb and Rb
signals available in the origina1 mix, soundtracks for home video 
products could be SQ-encoded with two separate surround Channels instead
of the single surround channel of Dolby MP. According to Reber, video 
cassettes prepared in this new way will be prominently identified by the
words 'SQ/Tate System'.

Regarding theater versions of films, the final soundtrack mix for 35mm
releases would be unchanged, prepared as now with a single surround
channel, but, for 70mm presentations, the Tate Audio proposal would make
separate left and right rear channels standard, a special feature used
only rarely with the Dolby 70mm system

Recent music video releases now available in the SQ/Tate System are
Dolly Parton's London Concert, David Bowie's 'Serious Moonlight' and
Lionel Hampton's Las Vegas concert. Performers who will be featured in
coming releases include The Tubes, DEVO and Lionel Richie. Also in the
works is an SQ/Tate Compact Disc release of the music soundtrack from
'Star Trek III: In Search of Spock'.
{What we don't know is if the future releases actually made it to print
 SQ encoded.}



List Compiled and Copyright By

Mark Anderson




Acknowledgments :
Thanks to the following folks who have passed on additions,
comments and corrections to this list :

Ron Brain for the majority of the info
Alan Smitthee


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