Sondor: History and Key Facts

Sondor is a manufacturer of Audio Video equipment located in Zollikon, Switzerland until 2017.

Sondor was founded in 1952 by Willy Hungerbuehler. Sondor started as a manufacturer of 16 mm film and 35mm film magnetic film equipment. They are noted as inventing the standard for bi-phase interlocking pulse signals to sync sound to film. Sondor added a film transport telecine to it line of film sound equipment. Sondor products are found in many in post-production studios for record and playback and in movie theater for sound playback. playback.

Sondor film transport telecines use a spinning prism telecine, like the model NOVA and ALTRA.

Some Sound Film followers player-recorder are the: OMA E and BASIC.

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