September 9, 2008
AV Receiver Glossary
A glossary is a list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. The best Av receivers usually have a lot of complicated components in and you may have heard some of these names before.
I will be listing some of the new high tech features that are found on home theater Av receivers today…
- 10-Channel Equal Power
- 2 way RC
- 24-bit/192-kHz D/A (digital-to-analog) Converters
- 5.1-, 6.1-, 7.1-Channels
- 6-Channel Equal Power
- 6-Channel Inputs for DVD-Audio or SACD
- 7-Channel Equal Power
- 8-Channel Input
- Advanced AL24 Multi
- Advanced AL24 Processing
- AL24 Processing
- AL24 Processing Plus
- Auto Set-Up/Room EQ Adjust
- Back Light Remote
- Cinema Equalizer
- Compact Disc-Recordable
- Compact Disc-Rewritable (CD-RW)
- Composite Video
- Digital Light Processing (DLP)
- Directional Correlation De-interlacing (DCDi)
- DivX Video-Playback
- Dolby Digital
- Dolby Digital EX
- Dolby Headphones
- Dolby Noise Reduction
- Dolby Pro Logic II
- Dolby True HD
- Dolby Virtual Speaker
- dts 96/24
- dts Digital Surround
- dts-ES Discrete 6.1
- dts-ES Extended Surround
- DTSHD Master Audio
- DVD-Audio (DVD-A)
- DVI (Digital Video Interface)
- Dynamic Discrete Surround Circuit (D.D.S.C.-Digital-Circuit)
- HD Radio
- HD Radio-Ready
- HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface)
- IEEE 1394
- JPEG
- Made For iPod
- MP3 (MPEG 1, Audio Layer 3)
- Multi-Room Entertainment System
- Neural Surround
- Noise Shaped Video (NSV)
- On Screen Display (OSD)
- Progressive Scan
- Radio Data System (RDS)
- SRS TruSurround
- Super Audio CD (SACD)
- S-Video
- THX
- THX Ultra
- THX Ultra2
- Video Up-conversion
- wifi
- WMA (Windows Media Audio)
- XM-Ready
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