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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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Optical soundtrack
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The traditional medium for carrying a film's soundtrack. The sound was converted to markings which were developed onto the edge of the film. The majority of optical soundtracks were analogue (in the ...
Interlace
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The two fields that constitute a TV frame each have only half the number of lines of a whole frame (576 visible lines for PAL, 480 for NTSC). One field has the odd numbered lines, the other has the ...
Long play record (LP)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The vinyl record that was introduced in the early 1950s to replace the shorter-play records previously used. Rather than their 78 rpm rotational velocity, the LP rotated at 33 1/3 rpm and used ...
Quantization
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The numerical value assigned to a particular analogue voltage input at an instant of time in an analogue to digital converter, or the process of making such an assignment. The range of numerical ...
Local into local (LIL)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The process of carrying local channels to certain markets.
Frequency
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The rate at which a repetitive signal repeats, measured in cycles per second or Hertz (or its convenient multiples). Audio frequencies are generally in the range of 20 to 20,000 Hertz because those ...
Sequentiel couleur a memoire (SECAM)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The television system used in France. It is very similar to PAL (the same frame rate and resolution) but uses a different colour encoding technique in transmission (the colour is FM modulated). This ...
