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.

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pulse code modulation (PCM)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is standard, uncompressed digital audio of the kind that is on compact discs. However while normal CDs are always encoded with 16 bits and 44,100 Hertz sampling rate, on DVD bit depths of up to ...

kell effect

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

TVs produce their pictures by shooting electron beams across a vacuum tube to its flat, or flattish, end. This end is coated in stripes of phosphor which glow red, green or blue (thus RGB) when hit ...

widescreen

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Until the early 1950s nearly all movies used the Academy aspect ratio of 1.37:1. Under the assault of TV from that time on, most cinema released movies were filmed in a widescreen format where the ...

efficiency

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Used in connection with transformation of energy from one form to another, efficiency is the ratio of energy output to energy input in the transformation process. In regard to speakers, it is ...

set top box (STB)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Usually referring to an OTA or cable TV receiver. A receiver box that sits on top of the TV set.

harmonic distortion

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

When a signal (usually audio) is not reproduced perfectly, it is said to be distorted. Harmonic distortion is a specific, and common, type of distortion in which a given frequency that is supposed to ...

record industry association of america equalization (RIAA equalization)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

When converting an electrical signal to mechanical motion, there is an inconvenient fact: the lower the frequency, the higher the excursion of the moving part for a given signal level. This is ...