I used to be the head projectionist at a movie theater and later went around Oregon fixing projectors in movie theaters. I quit in 1999 so my info is dated and could have changed.
Dolby Digital and DTS are both 5.1 channels. There is a center, left, right, left surround ,right surround and sub. The sub is .1 since it only covers a fraction of the frequency range.
Then there is SDDS (Sony Dynamic Digital Sound). It is 7.1 since it includes extra speakers between the thee stage speakers. Left-center and right-center. About 5% of the film prints came with a SSDS soundtrack. The equipment was insanely expensive (25K per theater for the equipment that sent the sound into the 15K cinema processor) so SDDS was only a last resort. And they put the audio on the very edges of the film which was prone to damage. Here is a pic of the soundtracks on a 35mm print. From left to right: SDDS, SR-D, Analog, and the morse code looking stuff is DTS. With DTS that isn’t the audio but a timecode. The Audio was on CDs.
I guess my rambling is saying that most film will probably not ship with a 7.1 soundtrack.
And fun fact, Dolby Digital read around 100K ones and zeros per second for audio. Shining a light through a piece of film traveling at 1.5 feet per second and recording that data was a fucking nightmare.