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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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CD emphasis
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
When the compact disc was first developed, the designers implemented a rather surprising element in its specification. This was a pre-emphasis, de-emphasis cycle. In brief, this permits the treble in ...
HD lite
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A 19.3mbps 1280x720p or 1920x1080i HDTV source, transmitted with either a lower bitrate, a lower resolution, or both. This is sometimes done by satellite or cable providers to save bandwidth, and by ...
THX
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A certification standard controlled and operated by THX Technologies. It covers certification of both cinemas and home entertainment equipment to meet given minimum standards. Originally, on the home ...
XGA
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A computer-oriented display resolution with 1,024 pixels horizontally and 768 pixels vertically. Frequently appears in projectors. XGA displays work well with anamorphic widescreen PAL DVDs because ...
Minidisc
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A digital audio music delivery system using a disc mounted inside a small, robust plastic cartridge. The audio is encoded using ATRAC. Interestingly, the audio may be carried on the disc in two ...
motion JPEG
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A digital movie compression format that consists of a sequence of still frames, each of which has been compressed using the JPEG algorithms.
kHz
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A measure of frequency equal to 1,000 Hertz (1,000 cycles per second). kHz is most commonly used in reference to radio frequencies and audio signal processing. Hertz is named after Physicist Heinrich ...
