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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variable bit rate (VBR)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

As opposed to CBR or constant bit rate. The flow of digital data increases or slows over time, according to the complexity of the encoded signal. Has the advantage of allocating more of the scarce ...

ultrasonic

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Audio tones of frequencies higher than capable of being detected by the human ear, generally above 20,000 Hertz.

infrasonic

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Audio tones of frequencies lower than capable of being detected by the human ear, generally below 20 Hertz.

theile and small parameters

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Back in the 1960s the Australian engineer Neville Theile and American engineer Richard Small developed a method of modelling loudspeakers. This was groundbreaking work, allowing the bass performance ...

free to air (FTA)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Channels that are unencrypted from their original source.

keystone correction

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Creating an image that is trapezoid (keystone) in the opposite direction to counter a keystoned image caused because the projector is angled with respect to the screen. (i.e. one end of the image ...

hertz

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Cycles per second – a measure of frequency. Young healthy humans can hear from around 20 Hertz to around 20,000. Frequencies lower than that can often be detected by other parts of the body.