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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integrated decoder/receiver

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A unit that decodes digital encoded audio and video.

persistence of vision

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A very short lingering of an image in the eyes and brain of a person. It is this which allows the continuous stuttering of still images at the cinema to look like smooth motion.

fourier

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Actually, Fourier analysis. Fourier found that every repeating signal could be expressed as the sum of some particular sine wave, called the fundamental frequency, plus its harmonics at various ...

All the harmonic distortion components added together to give a useful, if imperfect, summary measure. The imperfection resides in the fact that, audibly, some of the harmonic components are worse ...

hass effect

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Also known as the Precedence Effect. The human ears do not rely solely on different loudnesses to determine the direction from which a sound is coming; they also use timing. It is often the case that ...

equalization (EQ)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An adjustment to the frequency response of some piece of equipment or process in order to achieve a desired outcome. It might be part of a standard process (eg. RIAA Equalization) designed to ...

gamma correction

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An adjustment to the light intensity (brightness) of a scanner, monitor or printer in order to match the output more closely to the original image. A gamma correction imposes the complement of the ...