Editing Vitaphone (section)

==Legacy==

[[File:The Jazz Singer (1927).webm|thumb|thumbtime=16|''The Jazz Singer'' (1927)]]

Vitaphone was among the first 25 inductees into the [[TECnology Hall of Fame]] at its establishment in 2004, an honor given to "products and innovations that have had an enduring impact on the development of audio technology." The award notes that Vitaphone, though short-lived, helped in popularizing theater sound and was critical in stimulating the development of the modern [[sound reinforcement system]].<ref>[https://www.mixfoundation.org/hof/04techof.html#4 Mix Foundation. ''TECnology Hall of Fame, 2004'']</ref>

Though operating on principles so different as to make it unrecognizable to a Vitaphone engineer, [[DTS (sound system)|DTS]] is a sound-on-disc system, the first to gain wide adoption since the abandonment of Vitaphone.