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 compact cassette (DCC)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An attempted replacement for the compact cassette introduced by Philips in the late 1980s, early 1990s. This recorded audio in digital format, but used a lossy compression system. It failed to make ...

direct current (DC)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An electric current that retains its level and direction, at least in the short term. More generally, DC is also used to describe voltage sources that deliver this kind of current. DC is generally ...

balanced

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An electrical circuit in which both the signal leads (positive and negative, active and neutral or whatever) carry equal but inverse signals produced by the source. These require three conductors: ...

band-pass filter

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An electrical circuit that only permits signals between two particular frequencies to pass through. An example is section of a crossover network that allows only the middle frequencies to be ...

6.1

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An enhancement of the 5.1 channel surround system, versions of this appear in both Dolby Digital and DTS. The Dolby Digital version is called Dolby Digital EX 6.1 while the DTS version appears as ...

bass extension

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An imprecise term concerning how low in frequency a loudspeaker or subwoofer can still operate to produce usable output. A typical bookshelf-sized speaker may manage a bass extension of 80 Hertz ...

distortion

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An inaccuracy in the reproduction of a signal. In the case of audio, it is normally regarded as being composed of harmonic distortion and intermodulation distortion. But used more broadly, it can ...