Home theatre system

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.

Industry: Consumer electronics

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cantilever

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The thin rod within a turntable's cartridge that transmits the movement of the stylus in response to a record's groove to the interior components of the cartridge that generate the electrical signal.

The width of the screen as a ratio of its height. A standard TV screen is four units wide to three high, so is described as 4:3 or 1.33:1. A widescreen TV has an aspect ratio of 16:9 or about 1.78:1. ...

color difference

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

These are two of the three components of a color video signal. One is the Red color difference signal, called variously Y-R or CR while the other is the Blue color difference signal (Y-B or CB). They ...

compact disc (CD)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is the familiar 120mm optical disc. It carries a digital PCM representation of a two channel analog signal, along with error correction information. The analog signal is sampled at 44,100 Hertz ...

composite video

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is the way that the three component video signals are wrapped together to form a single signal, suitable for TV broadcast or carrying on a single two-conductor cable. The two color difference ...

component video

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Three components of a video signal that, together, constitute the full signal. The three components are luminance (Y), red color difference (CR) and blue color difference (CB). These can be wrapped ...