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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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ceramic cartridge
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A cartridge that produces an electrical signal through a piezoelectric effect. Such cartridges are rarely used in high fidelity applications because they require a relatively high tracking weight ...
digital rights management (DRM)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A catch-all name for various systems that control the distribution of digital audio and video content. Usually based on secure(-ish) keys and encryption.
digital audio tape (DAT)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A compact tape developed in the late 1980s by Sony which stores audio in PCM format. The tapes look very similar to the MiniDV tapes used in digital video cameras, but are somewhat larger, measuring ...
amplifier
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A component or module of a component that increases the amplitude of an electrical signal. Voltage amplifiers and current amplifiers are optimised to provide amplification for specific purposes. See ...
digital to analog converter (DAC)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A component, circuit or device that converts a digital signal to an analog signal. Compare ADC which does the reverse.
analog to digital converter (ADC)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A component, circuit or device that converts an analog signal to a digital one, usually to some form of PCM. Compare DAC which does the reverse.
digital signal processor (DSP)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A computer-type processing unit optimised to perform 24 or 32 bit floating-point operations on digital audio signals. This allows it to perform Fast Fourier Transforms and other complicated ...
