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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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DVD recorder

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A consumer electronics device which uses one or more of several different types of recordable DVD media as storage for video and audio material. It acts as a replacement for the VCR, offering ...

DTCP

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A cryptographic protocol for protecting digital content from illegal copying.

Dolby Pro Logic II

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A further enhancement of the two-channel based Dolby Pro Logic, this cleverly decodes separate left and right surround channels from the original signal and eliminates the 100 to 7,000 Hertz ...

2.5-way Loudspeakers

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A loudspeaker which divides the incoming signal into three different frequency bands for distribution to drivers, but in a different way to three-way speakers. It sends high frequencies to the ...

American National Standards Institutes (ANSI)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A measure of brightness for projectors under standards set by this body. This specifies an average brightness produced on a screen of known reflectivity using a particular test image, or images. A ...

Dolby Digital EX 6.1

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A new surround sound standard which provides the usual 5.1 channels plus an additional channel: the centre rear channel. Unlike DTS ES 6.1 Discrete the additional channel is not carried discretely ...

16:9 eEnhanced

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A picture format used for widescreen movies on DVD. See anamorphic for a full explanation.

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