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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Over the air (OTA)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Any programming that can be received using a conventional indoor/outdoor antenna.

Screen door effect (SDE)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The visual effect of a projector (typically LCD) showing the video with a thin black border around each individual pixel. Similar to looking through a screen door.

The way brightness is distributed across the intensity spectrum by a monitor, printer or scanner. Depending on the device, the gamma may have a significant effect on the way colours are perceived. ...

Peak music power output (PMPO)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is a fairyland measure of power output, sometimes quoted for home stereo systems. Sometimes figures of well over 2,000 watts PMPO are claimed. This is in the same class of reality as saying my ...

Amp

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Short for ampere, or for amplifier. In the former sense, the amp is a unit of electrical current. Amps equal volts divided by resistance (or impedance) in ohms.

Super vhs (S-VHS)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

This is a higher standard of video tape recorder, which approximately doubles the amount of horizontal resolution able to be recorded on video tape (from around 250 lines for VHS to around 400 ...

Phase alternating line (PAL)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The television system used in most of Europe, Australia and India. This runs at 25 frames or 50 fields per second and produces 576 visible scan lines. It is often referred to as having 625 lines, but ...