Logos[]
1st logo (June 18, 1993-1999)[]
A couple of white shooting stars shoot across the screen, then go into a large, zooming blue supernova. A flash occurs, leaving behind several yellow stars shooting at the screen, and a large sparkle with several lens-flare-like circles appears in the middle of the screen. Then, a glowing tilted horizon with red and black colors underneath it fades in as a large yellow pyramid swings into the center, and the large stylized text "SDDS" zooms out onto the triangle, leaving behind several blue clouds of dust as it does so. The text "Sony Dynamic Digital Sound" appears below "SDDS", and all the text begins to glow. The text "BREAKING THE DIGITAL SOUND BARRIER" appears below the whole thing as the triangle zooms in. When the triangle disappears completely, the horizon turns into dust and scatters all over the screen before fading out. "BREAKING THE DIGITAL SOUND BARRIER" continues appearing on the screen before the dust fades out.
2nd logo (May 20, 1998-late 2000s)[]
We start out on a black screen for a few seconds before the camera moves, revealing a sea-blue set of shapes with fish swimming in it. The camera turns away, then goes under a crack revealing an entire undersea environment with rocks, fish, and reefs. After a few seconds of footage in the sea, the camera then rises out of the ocean and heads straight into a series of trees into a jungle. The camera pans all through the trees before transitioning into a different shot of the jungle, where birds fly out from the trees. The scene then directly fades to a panning shot of Mount Kilauea in Hawaii. When the camera swings directly into the volcano, the inner part of the volcano becomes CGI and we zoom deeper into it before the text "SDDS", in the same font as before, appears in yellow and shoots at the camera. The environment disappears and becomes nothing but smoke. The Sony logo appears briefly and faintly in yellow before the smoke clears out and the SDDS logo appears at the left of the screen, with "Sony Dynamic Digital Sound" next to it.
Music/Sounds[]
1st logo: A series of whooshes and descending synths are heard all around the speakers playing the logo (whether they be on your computer, in a theater, or elsewhere). Then, an explosion occurs, alongside a deep synth note. It then turns into a bell note, then an ascending trumpet, and an orchestral hit.
2nd logo: A dark fanfare that starts off whimsically, before gaining jungle drums and becoming louder during the volcano sequence. The fanfare grows more and more dramatic as the SDDS logo shoots out, before turning silent and drawing back in some drums. Three string notes are heard before an orchestral hit occurs.
Scare Factor[]
1st logo: Minimal to low. The zooming might scare some, but this is a wonderful logo with amazing CGI, animation, and music. This is also a favorite of many.
2nd logo: Low to medium. The strange music, the fast pace of the logo, the smoke, and the explosion will get a few, but this is a great logo.
Videos[]
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