The receiver is generally the nerve centre of a sophisticated home-theatre system providing selectable inputs for a number of different audio components like turntables, compact-disc players and recorders, and tape decks ( like video-cassette recorders) and video components (DVD players and recorders, video-game systems, and televisions).
 | Home entertainment unit that plays more than DVD and CD The name Blu-ray Disc refers to the "blue laser" used to read the disc, which allows for five times more storage than on a DVD.In turn the blueray players are the only units that will allow play of the blueray disk. |
 | A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. |
 | Video CD (abbreviated as VCD, and also known as View CD, Compact Disc digital video) is a standard digital format for storing video on a Compact Disc. |