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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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Clipping
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
When the amplitude of a signal reaches some limit determined by the equipment in use, it hits a ceiling (and floor) beyond which it cannot proceed. So the top and bottom of the wave is simply lopped ...
Crosstalk
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Where a signal (particularly audio) leaks from one channel to another. Thus a voice may be intended to be entirely in the left channel of a stereo recording, but some portion of it appears in the ...
Cliff effect
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Where the degradation of a signal's reception does not gradually increase with a reduction in signal quality or strength, but maintains full quality until some threshold, at which point the signal ...
Destructive interference
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Where two signals, added together, act in opposition to each other and reduce the signal level. For example, bass from a subwoofer may, at certain frequencies, bounce from a nearby wall and that ...
Constructive interference
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Where two signals, added together, act in sympathy with each other to boost the signal level. For example, bass from a subwoofer may, at certain frequencies, bounce from a nearby wall and that ...
Bell express vu (BEV)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A canadian DBS provider that provides programming using standard 18" DBS satellite dishes.
Decibel - full scale (dBFS)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The level of a signal, measured in decibels, with reference to the maximum possible level of the signal. With digital audio the maximum recording level is 0dBFS, so all measurements of the signal are ...
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