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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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Digital video recorder (DVR)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A devise that records digital streaming audio and video on a hard drive. It's what TIVO is.
Audio engineering society/european broadcasting union (AES/EBU)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A digital audio communication standard most commonly seen in professional audio applications. Electrically it is only subtly different to the consumer-oriented S/PDIF standard, the main variation ...
Direct view
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A display device in which you look directly at the component which produces the picture. Thus a standard CRT TV is a direct view device, as is a plasma or LCD display. An RPTV and a front projection ...
Dynamic range control
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A facility in Dolby Digital to the reduce the dynamic range of the audio content in order to allow the entire programme to be heard in adverse conditions. It does this by reducing the loudness of the ...
Bass management
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A facility in home theatre receivers that permits some of the speakers in a 5.1 channel system to be specified as 'small' rather than 'large'. 'Large' speakers receive the entire signal for their ...
Deutsche institut fuer normung (DIN)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A German standards body. DIN frequently appears in specifications to give an indication of how measurements were conducted, and also applies to a number of connectors approved by the body.
Cantilever
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
The thin rod within a turntable's cartridge that transmits the movement of the stylus in response to a record's groove to the interior components of the cartridge that generate the electrical signal.
