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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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Toslink
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
DVD players can be connected to digital audio decoders by means of a digital signal cable. One kind uses wires and sends an electrical signal. TOSLink cables use optical fibre and send an optical (or ...
Fletcher munson curves
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Experimentally derived results which plot the perceived loudness (by humans) of sounds across the audio spectrum. These suggest that our ears are very much more sensitive to midrange and low treble ...
Frames
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
For movies, as seen in a cinema, this is an actual frame on the strip of film. Frames are shown in sequence, 24 times per second. On a TV or DVD, a frame consists of two fields which are interlaced ...
Folder
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Formerly called a 'directory' under the DOS/Windows operating systems. This is a logical division on storage media containing files and other folders. It is relevant for DVDs because these use ...
Phono
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
From phonogram. An adjective relating to systems for playing vinyl recordings, such as LPs. Thus the phono input of an amplifier is the input into which a turntable is plugged. This is usually ...
Piezo tweeters
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
High frequency loudspeaker drivers that, rather than using conventional voice coils, rely on the ability of some crystalline materials to physically respond to the application of a signal. They are ...
Picture resolution
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
How much detail appears in the picture. This is a function of how many pixels are devoted to the picture. The more dots, the finer the detail. As computer and television technology draw closer ...
