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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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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+RW Alliance.
ATRAC
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A system for compressing digital audio using perceptual encoding techniques. This was developed by Sony to allow the full contents of a CD to fit onto a Minidisc, which offers considerably less ...
DTS 96/24
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A variation on DTS. However rather than using DTS's normal 20 bits of resolution and 48kHz sampling frequency (of the PCM data before it is encoded), it uses a 96kHz, 24 bit source signal, offering a ...
DVD +R DL
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A write-once (ie. once recorded, it cannot be overwritten) high-capacity recordable DVD. Unlike the competing formats, this version (announced 2003, product availability in 2004) is dual layer, ...
DVD-R
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A write-once (ie. once recorded, it cannot be overwritten) recordable DVD. This format is supported by the DVD Forum.
super bit mapped (SBM)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An analog to digital conversion system developed by Sony that incorporates a form of noise shaping, designed to deliver very good performance results in the middle frequencies, at the cost of a poor ...
video cassette recorder (VCR)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An analog video recording system using tapes in a robust plastic housing. The two principal kinds were VHS and Beta although the latter is now obsolete and no Beta video recorders are made any more. ...
