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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 versatile disc (DVD audio)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Audio. This is the form of DVD which primarily holds DVD Audio material, all of which resides in a folder on the disc called 'AUDIO_TS'. The material may be either PCM or, more commonly, MLP encoded. ...
Codec
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Compression/Decompression. A system which compresses a signal in some way for storage or transportation and then decompresses it at the point of delivery. Examples are MPEG, Dolby Digital and DTS. ...
576p
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
A video display standard, where there are 576 visible lines delivered in progressive format.
Anamorphic
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
Also known as '16:9 enhanced' or 'widescreen enhanced'. This means stretching a picture out of shape, making the images tall and skinny. Many widescreen movies have been filmed on standard Academy ...
Digital compact cassette (DCC)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An attempted replacement for the compact cassette introduced by Philips in the late 1980s, early 1990s. This recorded audio in digital format, but used a lossy compression system. It failed to make ...
Direct current (DC)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An electric current that retains its level and direction, at least in the short term. More generally, DC is also used to describe voltage sources that deliver this kind of current. DC is generally ...
Balanced
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An electrical circuit in which both the signal leads (positive and negative, active and neutral or whatever) carry equal but inverse signals produced by the source. These require three conductors: ...
