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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Coloration

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

An unwanted alteration in the character of audio. Significant coloration of sound can make instruments and voices sound unrealistic. It may be caused by harmonic distortion, vibrations of component ...

Cinch plug

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Another name, used by companies that presumably don't like to use the opposition's brand name in their own literature, for RCA plug.

Digital audio

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Any one of a number of systems for recording sound using a digital representation of the sound. Some digital audio systems are straightforward representations of the analogue signal. Examples of ...

Analogue

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

As in not digital. An analogue signal in an electrical facsimile of the item being represented. For example, when playing a stereo DVD, the analogue audio outputs of a DVD player trace an electrical ...

Digital

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

As opposed to analog. It is a method of representing real-life signals (which are generally effectively infinitely variable) by using discrete numbers, usually binary numbers (a pattern of 1s and ...

Constant linear velocity (CLV)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

As opposed to CAV. A method of spinning a disc or disc carrying a signal. CLV means that the rate of spin varies in order to maintain a constant velocity of the track at the point where the reading ...

Constant angular velocity (CAV)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

As opposed to CLV. A method of spinning a disc or disc carrying a signal. CAV means that the rate of spin remains unchanged regardless of where the reading device is on the surface. An LP is an ...