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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DTS Neo:6

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A processing system that endeavours to extract an engaging 6.1 channel surround experience from two channels of audio. Unlike Dolby Pro Logic, this is not an encode/decode system, but more like a DSP ...

television/cinema (telecine)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A device to capture film frames and convert them to a suitable video format. These days the capture is normally performed digitally.

turntable

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A device used in a home entertainment system to rotate at the correct speed a vinyl recording, such as an LP. More generally, the word can refer to the turntable itself along with an installed ...

transformer

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A device used to alter the voltage of AC electricity. This typically consists of an iron ring of some kind with two coils of wire wound around it. The input current is fed to one of the coils, which ...

personal video recorder (PVR)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A device which can record broadcast TV, whether digital or analog, onto a built in hard disk drive for later replay. Same as DVR and TiVo.

meridian lossless packing (MLP)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A digital audio standard used for DVD Audio. Also known as Packed PCM or PPCM. This provides superb sound, from mono through to multichannel, with a number of technical advantages over Dolby Digital ...

quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A digital modulation method in which the value of a symbol consisting of multiple bits is represented by amplitude and phase states of a carrier. 64 or 256 QAM is used for downstream transmission in ...