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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JBL

Manufacturing; Home theatre system

JBL is an American audio electronics company currently owned by Harman International. It was founded in 1946 by James Bullough Lansing. Their primary products are loudspeakers and associated ...

anti-skating

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A device on a turntable's tonearm to counteract skating. This sometimes consists of an adjustable spring-loaded device near the tonearm's pivot, but is better implemented as a weight on a string ...

digital video recorder (DVR)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A devise that records digital streaming audio and video on a hard drive. It's what TIVO is.

audio engineering society/european broadcasting union (AES/EBU)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A digital audio communication standard most commonly seen in professional audio applications. Electrically it is only subtly different to the consumer-oriented S/PDIF standard, the main variation ...

A display device in which you look directly at the component which produces the picture. Thus a standard CRT TV is a direct view device, as is a plasma or LCD display. An RPTV and a front projection ...

dynamic range control

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A facility in Dolby Digital to the reduce the dynamic range of the audio content in order to allow the entire program to be heard in adverse conditions. It does this by reducing the loudness of the ...

bass management

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A facility in home theater receivers that permits some of the speakers in a 5.1 channel system to be specified as 'small' rather than 'large'. 'Large' speakers receive the entire signal for their ...