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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RGB (red, green, blue)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

These are the colors of the three additive lights signals required to produce all the colors of the rainbow, as perceived by humans. TV cameras use RGB receptors -- they detect the red, green and ...

MPEG 1 layer 3 (MP3)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is a digital audio compression standard that achieves high levels of compression of mono or stereo sound through perceptual encoding techniques. Close to CD quality sound can be achieved for ...

RGBHV (red-green-blue video + horizontal and verticle sync)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is an interconnect cable that can be either RCA or BNC connectors.

This is the technique used to crop a widescreen movie so it fits onto a standard TV with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Since the early 1950s most movies released to the cinema have been presented with a 1.66:1 ...

DVD-VR

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A recording mode offered for DVD-RW discs which differs from the standard DVD-Video mode. It allows significant levels of editing of recordings on the disc, at the cost of very limited compatibility ...

DVD-RW

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A rewritable (ie. recorded material can be erased or over-written) recordable DVD. This format is supported by the DVD Forum.

DVD-RAM

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A rewritable (ie. recorded material can be erased or over-written) recordable DVD. This format is supported by the DVD Forum. It should noted that DVD-RAM has very limited compatibility with standard ...