Cinema has historically pioneered new audio reproduction formats before home use.

Evidence

Historically, starting from the 1890s, the first three decades of the cinema industry were the era of ‘silent movies’. The technological advances in sound reproduction in the late 1920s made it possible to synchronize monophonic sound with the moving picture, soon replacing the silent movies with ‘talking movies’. Cinema sound reproduction has progressed through two-channel stereo in the 1950s to the delivery of multiple discrete loudspeaker playback channels in the 1990s, and in the 2010s to loudspeaker-set-up-agnostic object-based audio formats. New developments of audiovisual systems have often been taken into use first in the cinema, and later they have been introduced for domestic use too. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1819