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Home theatre system
Of or relating to private home entertainment set-ups that seek to reproduce the cinema going experience with the help of video and audio equipment.
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bit rate
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The number of digital bits a system transfers per second. In general, the higher the bit rate, the higher the quality of the signal. In every case, the higher the bit rate, the more data space ...
edge enhancement (EE)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The process of artificially sharpening an image that frequently introduces "halos" or "rings" around the periphery of people, objects or "edges" seen in video.
current
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The quantity of electrical charge moving through a circuit over a given time. The unit for current is amps or amperes.
contrast ratio
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The ratio between the darkest blacks (ie. the pixels in the area are fully shut off) and the brightest whites (pixels fully on) capable of being produced on-screen by a projector or other display ...
crossover network
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The set of components in a loudspeaker that divides up the incoming signal, sending the bass to the woofer, the treble to the tweeter and, sometimes, the middle frequencies to a midrange driver. The ...
bit depth
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The size of the number that records each digital sample. Since the system is digital, the number relates to powers of two. The compact disc uses a bit depth of 16, which allows 65,536 different ...
bit
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The smallest unit of digital information. A single bit can carry just one of two values: 0 or 1. There are eight bits in a byte, 1,024 bytes in a kilobyte, 1,024 kilobytes in a megabyte and 1,024 ...
