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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lens shift

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

When the optics of a projectors lens is used to move an image up, down, left , or right on the screen.

high definition television (HDTV)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

While Standard Definition TV provides the same vertical resolution as analog PAL system (576 visible lines), HDTV will provide greater resolution. Broadcast digitally under the DBV standards.

With dual layer DVDs there is normally a pause partway through the movie as the laser reaches the end of one layer and has to refocus on the other layer and find the correct starting point. However ...

power supply

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Within a home entertainment device, the section that provides a suitable voltage and current for the operation of the device. This typically consists of a transformer, rectifier (to turn AC into DC) ...

linear pulse code modulation (LPCM)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

For all practical purposes, the same as PCM. This tends to be called LPCM when dealing with DVDs.

letterbox

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

1) The first is a movie in widescreen format. When displayed on a standard 4:3 TV, this means it will have black bars on the screen at the top and bottom. 2) The presentation of a widescreen movie ...

tuner

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A component (or module within a component) that can receive an AM or FM radio signal, demodulate it and deliver an analog audio signal to an amplifier.