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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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damping factor
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A specification for power amplifiers which suggests the degree of control that the amplifier exercises over a connected loudspeaker. It is the ratio of the nominal impedance of the speaker (and is ...
active subwoofer
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A subwoofer with built-in amplification. Most subwoofers are active, not passive.
a-weighting
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A system of adjusting signal to noise ratio measurements to take into account the differing sensitivity of the human ear to different frequencies. Thus an A-weighted signal to noise ratio more ...
digital micromirror device (DMD)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A technology available (until the patents run out, it seems) only from Texas Instruments. This is used in DLP projectors and controls the transmission of light by means of hundreds of thousands of ...
digital light processor (DLP)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A type of projector based on the DMD. Most DLP projectors use a single DMD, so to derive the three necessary colors they have a spinning wheel with color filter windows, carefully synchronised with ...
cathode ray tube (CRT)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen. The original ...
d-terminal
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A video connection that delivers component video, along with useful ancilliary data. Despite the 'D', don't confuse it with any digital video standards such as DVI. The video signals are the same as ...
