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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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Video cassette recorder (VCR)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An analogue video recording system using tapes in a robust plastic housing. The two principal kinds were VHS and Beta although the latter is now obsolete and no Beta video recorders are made any ...
Surround sound
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An audio system which delivers sound from behind, as well as in front of, the listener. This can be artificially generated by 'virtual surround' systems which process a stereo signal to produce the ...
Low-pass philtre
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An electrical circuit that impedes signals above a particular frequency. In other words, it lets signals below that frequency pass through. An example is the circuit in a home theatre receiver that ...
High-pass philtre
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An electrical circuit that impedes signals below a particular frequency. In other words, it lets signals above that frequency pass through. An example is the circuit in a home theatre receiver that ...
Line level
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An electrical signal at a voltage level suitable for transferring a signal between components of a home entertainment system (for example, CD player to amplifier, amplifier to VCR). Most modern ...
Sine wave
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An electrical signal or tone that follows a sinusoidal shape. The shape is ubiquitous in nature. All repeating waves can be generated by a combination of a sine wave with various harmonics of that ...
High-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP)
Consumer electronics; Home theatre system
An encryption protocol developed by Intel and accepted for DVD use by the DVD Forum. This encrypts digital video output in real-time solely for the purpose of decrypting at the other end of a DVI or ...
