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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helical scan

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A system of recording tracks of data or signal onto magnetic tape in which the tape is wrapped partway (up to about three quarters) around the circumference of a spinning cylinder. The cylinder ...

A system of storing or transporting a signal by using it to modulate a carrier in the frequency, rather than amplitude, domain. FM radio, high-fidelity audio on VHS, and numerous other systems are ...

transmission line

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A system of tuning the bass response of a loudspeaker enclosure that involves a labyrinthine internal structure, with a long internal passage between the rear of the woofer and the outside air. This ...

harmonic

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A tone the frequency of which is a whole multiple of another tone with which it is associated. Virtually all physical sound producers (including, unfortunately, loudspeakers) produce complex sounds ...

magnetic cartridge

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A turntable cartridge that produces the signal by moving a magnet within a coil (moving magnet cartridge), or vice versa (moving coil cartridge).

scan lines

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A TV works by sweeping its electron beams from one side of the screen to the other, then repeating this just below the line it has just drawn, and so on from the top to the bottom of the screen. With ...