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Koss KS3101 Progressive Scan DVD Home Theater System

Koss KS3101 Progressive Scan DVD Home Theater System

List Price: $199.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great buy
Review: Easy setup, good instructions, colored cables not to confuse the user, solid speakers and GREAT SOUND.

Great packaging. It traveled to Argentina and the box "said" that it was not treated like a lady but when I opened it, the suppport is strong enough to resist some "airport soccer".

Lots of features, good radio. Much more than expected for the price.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great buy
Review: Easy setup, good instructions, colored cables not to confuse the user, solid speakers and GREAT SOUND.

Great packaging. It traveled to Argentina and the box "said" that it was not treated like a lady but when I opened it, the suppport is strong enough to resist some "airport soccer".

Lots of features, good radio. Much more than expected for the price.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Sounds great, problems with picture quality
Review: Easy to set up, sounds awesome for an average apartment, sub-woofer a bit low, but OK for the price. But audio is probably the only great feature of this system.

I have tried the system for a few days now. Would have liked it if the picture quality was better. Adds a green tinge to the movie signal from DVD, so you don't get the true colors. All yellows seem a little greenish and all reds seem pale. Moreover, sometimes there are diagonal lines running over the screen .. they are a little hard to detect, but if you look closely you can see them. Moreover, mine does not play any discs other than DVDs. I have tried standard 128+ bit MP3 discs, audio CDs etc.. but each song/entry plays for a few seconds before stopping. Also, the remote does not have a great interface for browsing through the MP3 listings. I will probably return this thing to Amazon in a few days, unless I receive some suggestions as to how to improve things, particularly the video quality. These problems may not be generic and I would suggest you buy it, being a little bit cagey about it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great system for the price
Review: For the price this system is definately worth it. It was very easy to setup and once the Tone is adjusted to EX BASS and the volume turned up a bit the sound is better than I had expected. I bought this for the DVD/Tuner combo as a secondary system. Don't expect it to even touch high end systems, but as a secondary it's great. I would have given 5 stars, but I found the wires too short and I can't stand it when they apply stickers to the hardware that is hard to get off.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DO NOT BUY KOSS
Review: Go to any electronics store and you'll hear them say, "Do not buy Koss". While some review site that one person thinks is "THE authority" say it's quality, review sites do not use the product beyond an initial test. I've owned mine for three months, and originally, I thought I got quite a steal. Now the thing is dead, nothing more than awkward paperweight.

Whatever you do, do yourself a favor, save up an extra month or two and buy a quality sound system. Do some research even beyond this site and you will find that Koss is a huge waste of your money.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Sweet unit, best sound for the buck !
Review: Got the Canadian version KS3102-2 from a membership warehouse store and it was highly recommended by the staffs there even over some Japanese systems. The biggest surprise was the wonderful sound, which at 300w is more than enough for a home setup, as I found now. The system makes movie watching very enjoyable and if I close my eyes, it feels just like I am at the theater. In my option, the price is worth the sound system alone (very powerful amp, great sub and speakers for the size) and the progressive scan DVD player is just a Huge plus. The dvd playing is smooth even for dvds/vcds that I had problems with my new-ish Panasonic. Simply, a very amazing and user-friendly system that I hope people weren't discouraged by the Koss label.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It didn't last 6 months.
Review: Grr. What a waste of money.

The disk tray moves really slowly, as if it has to consider whether or not its going to open when you ask it to.

A couple times it refused to play DVD's while flashing a 'ratings' message at me (these were 50's horror flick DVD's - hardly objectionable material) so I had to completely unplug the thing and start it up again.

Then after about 5 months of intermittent usage, one day the speakers started humming really loud, and it was dead.

Bummer.


Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Help
Review: Hey was looking at this system because of the price and the tech specs for the price. I wanted to hook it up to my desktop computer so I don't really care if the dvd player busts. Does anyone know if the receiver will still take sound input using a Y-cable to the receiver? thanks

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Useless
Review: I bought this dvd player about 4 months ago.... for the brand I figured it would be a pretty good unit... I thought wrong though

right now the only movie I can get to work on this player without the speakers buzzing is Rocky Horror, and thats only if I listen to it in mono....

so far my Bass channel puts out just buzz... the internal fan went dead, so the only way to keep it from over heating is to keep the lid off it... the left and right channels buzz, the surrounds stoped working all together....

all in all, this unit is worthless... dont buy it!!!

and, if on the off chance that you already have one.... when it breaks down, save the speakers, they are the best part of the unit...


Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Sound
Review: I have set up my new system this week and unfortunately there must be a defect in the amplifier. The unit is not putting out 300 watts, my tv's 10x2 watts sound better!!!!


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