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.

Industry: Consumer electronics

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480p

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A video display standard, where there are 480 visible lines delivered in progressive format.

576i

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

A video display standard, where there are 576 visible lines delivered in interlaced format. When delivered in analogue format, it is identical to PAL.

Reduction. Air is compressed by squeezing it into a smaller space. Digital signals are compression by reducing the amount of data space required to hold them. Some digital data compresses readily, ...

Compander

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Compressor/Expander. A noise-reduction system that works by compressing the dynamic range of the audio before recording, and expanding it again by an equivalent amount during playback. An example of ...

Designated market area (DMA)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Determines what local channels you can subscribe to.

Byte

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Eight bits. A byte can represent numbers between 0 and 255, or when interpreted as signed integers, between -128 and +127. BTW

Academy sound

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

Fairly soon after the introduction of talkies in the late 1920s, the movie industry settled on using an analogue optical soundtrack on the edge of the film to carry the sound. This was read by the ...