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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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coloration
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An unwanted alteration in the character of audio. Significant coloration of sound can make instruments and voices sound unrealistic. It may be caused by harmonic distortion, vibrations of component ...
cinch plug
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Another name, used by companies that presumably don't like to use the opposition's brand name in their own literature, for RCA plug.
digital audio
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Any one of a number of systems for recording sound using a digital representation of the sound. Some digital audio systems are straightforward representations of the analog signal. Examples of these ...
analog
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
As in not digital. An analog signal in an electrical facsimile of the item being represented. For example, when playing a stereo DVD, the analog audio outputs of a DVD player trace an electrical ...
digital
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
As opposed to analog. It is a method of representing real-life signals (which are generally effectively infinitely variable) by using discrete numbers, usually binary numbers (a pattern of 1s and ...
constant linear velocity (CLV)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
As opposed to CAV. A method of spinning a disc or disk carrying a signal. CLV means that the rate of spin varies in order to maintain a constant velocity of the track at the point where the reading ...
constant angular velocity (CAV)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
As opposed to CLV. A method of spinning a disc or disk carrying a signal. CAV means that the rate of spin remains unchanged regardless of where the reading device is on the surface. An LP is an ...
