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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Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A power amplifier in which a sufficient DC bias voltage is applied to the power transistors so that the output signal always operates entirely in the positive or negative part of the cycle, entirely ...

Analogue to digital converter (ADC)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A component, circuit or device that converts an analogue signal to a digital one, usually to some form of PCM. Compare DAC which does the reverse.

Digital signal processor (DSP)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A computer-type processing unit optimised to perform 24 or 32 bit floating-point operations on digital audio signals. This allows it to perform Fast Fourier Transforms and other complicated ...

Digital visual interface (DVI)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A connexion standard for delivering video in uncompressed digital format between signal sources (such as DVD players) and display devices. A rectangular 15-pin socket/plug is used for the connection. ...

Acoustic suspension

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A design for the enclosure of a loudspeaker. With acoustic suspension speakers the enclosure is sealed so that it is air tight, which causes the air within to become a very active part of the ...

Blu-ray

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A high capacity development of the DVD which uses higher frequency (blue) rather than red light frequencies for reading the disc. The combination of shorter wavelengths and other enhancements bumps ...

Digital theatre system (DTS)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A high quality digital surround sound compression format capable of carrying multiple channels of audio. While using perceptual encoding like many other systems, it uses much lower levels of ...