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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digital visual interface (DVI)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A connection standard for delivering video in uncompressed digital format between signal sources (such as DVD players) and display devices. A rectangular 15-pin socket/plug is used for the ...

acoustic suspension

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A design for the enclosure of a loudspeaker. With acoustic suspension speakers the enclosure is sealed so that it is air tight, which causes the air within to become a very active part of the ...

A design for the enclosure of a loudspeaker. With bass reflex speakers the enclosure has a port that permits air to flow between the interior and exterior of the cabinet. The port is a hole, usually ...

Dolby Digital (DD)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Dolby Digital is an encoding scheme invented by Dolby Laboratories as a way of compressing digital audio so that it uses a lot less data space. It is also known as AC-3. Originally developed as an ...

Dolby HX

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Dolby Headroom eXtension. Not to be confused with the various sorts of Dolby Noise Reduction, Dolby HX is a process that improves the high frequency, high level recording performance of magnetic ...

EDTV

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Enhanced Definition TV 480p 16:9 digital TV format.

Dolby noise reduction

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

It was the invention of an effective noise reduction circuit by Ray Dolby in the 1960s that got Dolby Laboratories onto the road to where it is today. This circuit was developed into Dolby Type A ...