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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mb/s (or mbps)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Megabits per second. A measure of the data flow rate for digital video from a DVD. Stands for millions of bits per second. Generally, the higher the number the better the quality.

Most video formats are interlaced, which means that to create a single frame the first line is scanned, then the third, then the fifth. When the bottom of the screen is reached the signal returns to ...

laserdisc

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

On optical disc, 30cm in diameter, used to carry movies. The video signals are held in analog form, while the audio signals were originally FM encoded analog, but later were in PCM digital and later ...

skate

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The rather unintuitive tendency of the stylus of a turntable cartridge to seek to slide towards the centre. This is due to the geometry of the tonearm and results in a greater force being applied to ...

sweet spot

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The seating position or positions at which a stereo or surround sound system produces its best effect, particularly with regard to imaging.

imaging

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The sensation produced in a stereo or surround system of sounds coming from between the loudspeakers. The imaging is described in various subjective ways relating to how tightly focused those sounds ...