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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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super audio cd (SACD)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A new audio format developed by Sony and Philips. This takes on DVD Audio by offering very high resolution sound, using DSD digital encoding. SACDs can deliver up to 5.1 channels of sound, but even ...
high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A new connection standard for feeding signals from sources to output devices in digital format. This carries both uncompressed digital video (in a form compatible with DVI) and uncompressed digital ...
shadow mask
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A part of a CRT TV tube. This is a barrier within the tube, placed between the electron guns at the narrow end and the phosphor screen at the wide end. It consists of plate with thousands of ...
widescreen enhanced
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A picture format used for widescreen movies on DVD. See Anamorphic for a full explanation.
octave
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A range of frequencies of some form of repetitive wave, where the highest frequency is precisely twice the lowest frequency. In music, for example, the fundamental frequency of A below Middle C is ...
loudness control
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A sad, sad circuit on a preamplifier that boosts the bass and, to a lesser extent, the treble of an audio signal. The idea was to overcome the reduced sensitivity of the ear to bass and treble at low ...
high definition compatible digital (HDCD)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
This is an encoding/decoding system intended to improve the resolution of CDs (and other digital audio sources) while retaining full CD compatibility. It is said to provide performance equivalent to ...
