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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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deutsche institut fuer normung (DIN)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A German standards body. DIN frequently appears in specifications to give an indication of how measurements were conducted, and also applies to a number of connectors approved by the body.
blu-ray
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A high capacity development of the DVD which uses higher frequency (blue) rather than red light frequencies for reading the disc. The combination of shorter wavelengths and other enhancements bumps ...
digital theater system (DTS)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A high quality digital surround sound compression format capable of carrying multiple channels of audio. While using perceptual encoding like many other systems, it uses much lower levels of ...
compression driver
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A kind of loudspeaker driver. Rather than using a speaker cone to directly vibrate the air in a room, a compression driver has a throat in front of the moving part that causes a relatively small ...
decibel (dB)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A logarithmic measure of ratio. To determine the decibel relationship of, for example, two voltages you use the formula dB=20*log(V1/V2). If the result is negative, V1 is less than V2. If positive, ...
dipole
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A loudspeaker designed to offer a diffuse, non-directional sound by firing its high frequencies in two directions, out of phase with each other, so that a listener receives few aural clues as to ...
bipole
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A loudspeaker designed to offer well-dispersed sound by firing its high frequencies, and in some models its full frequency range, in two opposing directions. Unlike dipole speakers, the sound is in ...
