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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perceptual encoding

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A compression technique for digitally recorded sound. Digital audio does not compress at all well using conventional 'non-lossy' schemes because there is very little redundancy in the data stream. ...

uxga

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A computer-oriented display resolution with 1,600 pixels horizontally and 1,200 pixels vertically.

video graphics array (VGA)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A computer-oriented display resolution with 640 pixels horizontally and 480 pixels vertically. Sometimes appears in older projectors and LCD displays.

super video graphics array (SVGA)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A computer-oriented display resolution with 800 pixels horizontally and 600 pixels vertically. Often appears in inexpensive projectors.

video home system (VHS)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A consumer-level video recording system developed by JVC in the late 1970s. Despite urban legends to the contrary, it was not noticably inferior to Sony's Beta system (although the latter offered a ...

user operation prohibition (UOP)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A control put into a DVD's control program that prohibits the user from performing certain actions at certain points on the DVD. Frequently there are UOPs against jumping back to the DVD's main menu ...

macrovision

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A copy protection system incorporated into most pre-recorded video tapes and DVDs. A signal is added into a part of the video signal that is not otherwise used. For video tapes this is recorded on ...