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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peak music power output (PMPO)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is a fairyland measure of power output, sometimes quoted for home stereo systems. Sometimes figures of well over 2,000 watts PMPO are claimed. This is in the same class of reality as saying my ...

super vhs (S-VHS)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is a higher standard of video tape recorder, which approximately doubles the amount of horizontal resolution able to be recorded on video tape (from around 250 lines for VHS to around 400 ...

root mean square (RMS)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is a measure of voltage or (incorrectly) power output. The latter is often quoted in the specifications for an amplifier or home theater receiver. Measuring voltage is simple with direct ...

s-video

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is a special cable with four pin connectors at the end designed to carry video. Its virtue is that it keeps the luminance part of the signal separate from the chroma part, providing a ...

high fidelity (Hi Fi)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is a tricky set of four letters. 'Hi fi' is frequently used a generic noun for any stereo sound system. But it should more properly be regarded as an adjective, taking due note of the Latin ...

midrange

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The audible frequencies typically constituted by frequencies of between 150 and 5,000 Hertz, although the dividing lines between midrange and bass at the bottom end, and midrange and treble at the ...

least significant bit (LSB)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The bit of the binary number that varies the value of the binary number by no more than one (which is why it is the least significant). This bit is often randomised in PCM digital audio in order to ...