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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AC-3

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

AC-3 is the encoding scheme used in Dolby Digital, the name by which it is now more commonly known.

An improved version of Dolby Surround which decodes two channel Dolby Stereo sound tracks to four channels. In addition to the front left, front right and mono surround channels, it also extracts a ...

A/V (audio/visual)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

As in A/V connections. Most modern TVs have separate sockets for the composite video signal (that's the yellow one) and sound (black or white, or red and white if stereo).

custom electronic design & installation association (CEDIA)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

CEDIA is an international trade association of companies that specialize in designing and installing electronic systems for the home.

DVD Video

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Digital Versatile Disc - Video. This is the form of DVD which primarily holds DVD Video material, movies or music videos. All the DVD Video material resides in a folder on the disc called 'VIDEO_TS'.

DTS ES 6.1 matrix

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A 6.1 channel version of DTS where a centre-rear channel is encoded into the two normal surround channels in a similar way to that employed by Dolby Pro Logic to hold a centre channel encoded into ...

DTS ES 6.1 discrete

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A 6.1 channel version of DTS where a centre-rear channel is held in a discrete audio channel. DTS ES 6.1 DVDs are backwards compatible with standard DTS decoders.