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.

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video CD (VCD)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A movie format popular in Asia in which highly compressed movies can be placed on an optical disc adhering to CD conventions. MPEG-1 compression is used, which is less effective than the MPEG-2 used ...

XLR

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A professional audio connection standard in which the signal pins are not connected to the shielding earth. This allows them to carry balanced audio signals. Most commonly seen in three pin versions ...

Ohm

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A unit of electrical resistance or impedance. In a DC circuit, the number of ohms of resistance offered by a component can be calculated by dividing the voltage across the component by the current ...

HD

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

High Definition

JPEG

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Joint Experts Picture Group. A digital still picture compression format that achieves high ratios of compression by discarding picture detail, considered by its algorithms to be imperceptible.

widescreen TV

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Modern TVs (and other display devices) increasing support a display are with a 16:9 aspect ratio. This provides a much better experience when watching modern signal sources, such as DVDs and Digital ...

PAL60

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

PAL60 is a television format that is sort of a hybrid of NTSC and PAL. It is used in many VCRs and DVD players to convert NTSC signals to PAL, sort of. Basically it leaves the signal in standard NTSC ...