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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Watt

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A unit of power. For DC, it is equal to the current multiplied by the voltage (one watt equals one volt times one amp).

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.

Midrange driver

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A middle-sized driver designed to reproduce the important midrange frequencies between the bass and treble notes. If this is omitted, the loudspeaker is called 'two-way'. If present, along with a ...

Sound stage

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A movie set where audio is recorded along with video. But in the home entertainment context, the sound stage is area between a pair of stereo speakers from which they appear to make the various ...

Home theatre receiver

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A multichannel amplifier with a digital decoder and tuner built in. The decoder always provides at least PCM and Dolby Digital decoding, and almost always DTS as well. A few also incorporate MPEG ...

A new audio format developed by Sony and Philips. This takes on DVD Audio by offering very high resolution sound, using DSD digital encoding. SACDs can deliver up to 5.1 channels of sound, but even ...