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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picture resolution

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

How much detail appears in the picture. This is a function of how many pixels are devoted to the picture. The more dots, the finer the detail. As computer and television technology draw closer ...

If two tones are produced at the same time as each other, they can interact in a piece of equipment to produce other tones. Those tones are the sum and difference between the two original tones and, ...

radio frequency (RF)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

If your TV is plugged into your VCR via the aerial socket, rather than through A/V and you tune into the VCR using a channel number, the movie you are watching has been radio frequency modulated by ...

linearity

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

In any home entertainment system, at each stage the input and output signals should be precisely proportional to each other (except where specifically provided such as RIAA equalization or Dolby ...

overscan

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

In order to make sure the sides of the picture form nice vertical lines, and to use the whole screen, TV makers tune their sets so that a little bit of the picture flows off the visible screen on all ...

motion picture experts group (MPEG)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

In practice, this stands for a number of audio and video compression standards. The video on DVDs is compressed according to the MPEG-2 standard, which permits not only compression of each single ...