Cinema Digital Sound (CDS)

 A new system of digitally recording motion picture sound format introduced by the Optical Radiation Corporation, a division of Kodak, in 1990, for the film “Dick Tracy” for digital sound on 35mm or 70mm film formats via a laser beam, which reportedly combines the dynamic and frequency ranges and low distortion of the CD on six discrete channels. Five channels encompass the full audio bandwidth and the sixth is designated a subwoofer channel, containing only the lowest frequencies. The CDS-encoded film is capable of being shown with conventional stereo optical sound, but requires a special sound system to reproduce the six channels digitally. First used in 1990, this format lasted only two years and is now obsolete. See AC-35.1.