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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dither

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Very low level noise, usually 'white' in character, added to a digital audio signal to reduce harmonic distortion. It typically is just a random variation in the least significant bit of the digital ...

clipping

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

When the amplitude of a signal reaches some limit determined by the equipment in use, it hits a ceiling (and floor) beyond which it cannot proceed. So the top and bottom of the wave is simply lopped ...

crosstalk

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Where a signal (particularly audio) leaks from one channel to another. Thus a voice may be intended to be entirely in the left channel of a stereo recording, but some portion of it appears in the ...

cliff effect

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Where the degradation of a signal's reception does not gradually increase with a reduction in signal quality or strength, but maintains full quality until some threshold, at which point the signal ...

destructive interference

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Where two signals, added together, act in opposition to each other and reduce the signal level. For example, bass from a subwoofer may, at certain frequencies, bounce from a nearby wall and that ...

constructive interference

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Where two signals, added together, act in sympathy with each other to boost the signal level. For example, bass from a subwoofer may, at certain frequencies, bounce from a nearby wall and that ...