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 versatile disc (DVD audio)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Audio. This is the form of DVD which primarily holds DVD Audio material, all of which resides in a folder on the disc called 'AUDIO_TS'. The material may be either PCM or, more commonly, MLP encoded. ...

codec

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Compression/Decompression. A system which compresses a signal in some way for storage or transportation and then decompresses it at the point of delivery. Examples are MPEG, Dolby Digital and DTS. ...

compander

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Compressor/Expander. A noise-reduction system that works by compressing the dynamic range of the audio before recording, and expanding it again by an equivalent amount during playback. An example of ...

designated market area (DMA)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Determines what local channels you can subscribe to.

byte

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Eight bits. A byte can represent numbers between 0 and 255, or when interpreted as signed integers, between -128 and +127. BTW

academy sound

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Fairly soon after the introduction of talkies in the late 1920s, the movie industry settled on using an analog optical soundtrack on the edge of the film to carry the sound. This was read by the ...