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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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enclosure
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The box or cabinet of a speaker. In any half decent speaker, this is not merely a device to keep the drivers off the floor, but an integral part of the design of the whole speaker, contributing ...
luminance
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The brightness or black and white component of a TV picture. It is created from the original RGB source signal by adding the three colors together in the correct proportions (0.3, 0.59, 0.11 ...
interconnect
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The cables used to transfer an analog line level signal from a source component in a home entertainment system to an amplifier or recording device. Thus a set of interconnects is commonly used to ...
voice coil
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The coil of wire that is attached to the back of the cone or dome of a loudspeaker driver. This is surrounded by a strong, close magnet so that when electricity is fed into the coil, it moves to and ...
excursion
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The degree of fore and aft movement of a mechanical component in an audio system. Loudspeakers, for example, produce sound by vibrating their drivers' cones or domes. The distance between the ...
posterization
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The display of "bands" of color rather than a true gradient. Sometimes called "false contouring" it is typical a function of inadequate contrast ratio. Makes colored gradients appear as a series of ...
track
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The divisions within a Group on a DVD Audio. Navigation is most easily achieved by using the forward and reverse 'skip' keys of the DVD player's remote control. Alternatively, the divisions within ...
