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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Kell effect

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

TVs produce their pictures by shooting electron beams across a vacuum tube to its flat, or flattish, end. This end is coated in stripes of phosphor which glow red, green or blue (thus RGB) when hit ...

Resistance

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The aspect of impedance which remains constant regardless of the frequency of the signal it is affecting. In the case of DC voltages, the resistance is the same as the impedance. Measured in ohms.

Power

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The amount of energy expended per unit time. The common unit is the watt. Power (in watts) in a DC circuit equals voltage times current (in amps).

High definition compatible digital (HDCD)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is an encoding/decoding system intended to improve the resolution of CDs (and other digital audio sources) while retaining full CD compatibility. It is said to provide performance equivalent to ...

Pulse code modulation (PCM)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is standard, uncompressed digital audio of the kind that is on compact discs. However while normal CDs are always encoded with 16 bits and 44,100 Hertz sampling rate, on DVD bit depths of up to ...

Resolution

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The amount of detail a system is capable of recording or producing. For digital audio, it is largely determined by the bit depth. See also Picture Resolution.

Interconnect

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The cables used to transfer an analogue line level signal from a source component in a home entertainment system to an amplifier or recording device. Thus a set of interconnects is commonly used to ...