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Philips HTS3555 Home Theater System with iPod Connectivity (Black) |
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| Cheap system, clumsy interface - bare bones |
If all you want to do is use the most basic features of this unit - some sound, and a DVD player, it's alright - a good value at the $199 I paid in Best Buy about 18 months ago. Anthing beyond that and it's a piece of junk.
1. The user interface is so slow as to be not interactive. You have to wait and wait between commands, so it's frustrating, and not intuitive.
2. It seems like an eternity from power up to TV sound.
3. The iPod dock video out feature just plain doesn't work (120GB iPod Classic).
4. It is nearly impossible to use this in a system with a programmable remote. This is because there are some features that are only selected via remote code toggles, such as the crucial Digital In" for sound. Serious, serious design flaw for a supposed "Home Theater" component.
5. Copper digital sound out only. Optical would have been nice, saved me $40 for a converter.
6. Firmware upgrade available online - and the upgrade worked, and fixed the seconds-long audio dropouts. Nice.
Overall, a toy HTS for non-serious, cheap TV and DVD watchers.
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| Dec 29, 2008 |
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| Never been happier |
| I ordered a new TV and this surround sound system. The surround sound part i wasn't so worried about so I put it away. What a mistake! Our dvd player went out so i pulled out the surround system and took a few mins to plug it all in and kazam. it was awesome! Great sound, great bass. And all of the media options are great. I loaded up a flash drive with music and listen to music that way. Why mess with a cd? The ipod dock is great!! The DVD player and sound are great and I would've paid for more if i had to. I am more impressed with this system then the Tv we bought (which we are happy with too). If you don't have $300 or more to spend on surround, this is the system you want. |
| Dec 05, 2008 |
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| you either love it or dont, I DONT |
| Last November I bought this system for my husband for his birthday. After getting it home, and setting it up, it did NOT work. Like others, it did not recognize a disk. I took it back down, returned it, bought another one, it worked. For about 6 months of extremely occasional use. Maybe 6 times. Now it does not work. Now it skips every 10-15 seconds through movies. So.....we called Philips, since it was still under warranty. They sent us a new one. It does NOT work. NOW we have to call them again. Wow, what a vicious circle. This will be the last Philips product that we purchase. I am calling on Monday to request that they reimburse us our 250.00 that I payed for it. I will give the money to Sony instead. I like their products and should have stayed with them to begin with. I am a full time nursing student and money is a little shy around here at the moment, but like the others said: YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. |
| Sep 14, 2008 |
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| Good |
| Everything is good with this one...except that the volume is shutting itself down slowly after 1 minute, does anyone know the reason... |
| Aug 19, 2008 |
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