Rating: 
Summary: Good System For Price
Review: I have had this system for about 2 months now and I am totally satisfied. Very easy to set up right out of the box. All wire ends are color coded as well as speaker inputs so its impossible to screw up. My family room is 14 x 18 and the 300 watts fills it with sound. New DVD's sound especially good. I searched the web for a system with wireless speakers and this was the best system I found. I did not want to run wires around the room for the rear speakers.
The rear speakers do have to be wired together and into the wireless receiving unit. The speakers are narrow and stylish and put out surprising sound for the size. The woofer also puts out good bass for the size. A few small drawbacks - there are no bass or treble controls although the ambient settings do compensate quite well for this. Also my 900 mghz cordless phone will send a crackle through the speakers even when the system is off. This system is on a 866 mghz frequency. My 2.4 ghz cordless is no problem. The progressive DVD player is excellent. I have had a Panasonic and a Cyberhome before this and both had occasional problems with rental DVD's stalling and skipping. This has no such problem. It reads my DVD X Copy discs with no problem and the MP3 player does an excellent job reading CDRW's also. MP3's sound great. If you do not want to run wires all over the place and 300 watts is all you need this is an excellent system for the price. Wattage is an overrated overhyped function of most home theatre sytems anyway. More power does not necessarily mean better sound.
Rating:
Summary: Good System For Price
Review: I have had this sysyem for about 2 months now and I am totally satisfied. Very easy to set up right out of the box. All wire ends are color coded as well as speaker inputs so its impossible to screw up. My family room is 14 x 18 and the 300 watts fills it with sound. New DVD's sound especially good. I searched the web for a system with wireless speakers and this was the best system I found. I did not want to run wires around the room for the rear speakers.
The rear speakers do have to be wired together and into the wireless receiving unit. The speakers are narrow and stylish and put out surprising sound for the size. The woofer also puts out good bass for the size. A few small drawbacks - there are no bass or treble controls although the ambient settings do compensate quite well for this. Also my 900 mghz cordless phone will send a crackle through the speakers even when the system is off. This system is on a 866 mghz frequency. My 2.4 ghz cordless is no problem. The progressive DVD player is excellent. I have had a Panasonic and a Cyberhome before this and both had occasional problems with rental DVD's stalling and skipping. This has no such problem. It reads my DVD X Copy discs with no problem and the MP3 player does an excellent job reading CDRW's also. MP3's sound great. If you do not want to run wires all over the place and 300 watts is all you need this is an excellent system for the price. Wattage is an overrated overhyped function of most home theatre sytems anyway. More power does not necessarily mean better sound.
Rating:
Summary: great for a small space
Review: I was very excited to use this system. When I recieved it and opened the box I could not wait to install it. Once I installed it and tried it out I could not wait until i sent it back for a refund.
The Wireless system seemed OK except that I continued to get a sharp metallic spiking sound from the surround speakers. When anyone crossed the path of the transmitter the speakers would screech. It was horrible. To make sure that it wasn't just the speakers, I wired them to the receiver and the sound was better.There is no treble setting either. Most TV shows will have a high treble level and I have no choice but to deal with it. The system is great for watching DVDs but not for watching TV which is probably 95% of the use it gets. I would not buy this. There are better systems out there for the same price.
Rating: 
Summary: System lacks true functionality
Review: I was very excited to use this system. When I recieved it and opened the box I could not wait to install it. Once I installed it and tried it out I could not wait until i sent it back for a refund.
The Wireless system seemed OK except that I continued to get a sharp metallic spiking sound from the surround speakers. When anyone crossed the path of the transmitter the speakers would screech. It was horrible. To make sure that it wasn't just the speakers, I wired them to the receiver and the sound was better. There is no treble setting either. Most TV shows will have a high treble level and I have no choice but to deal with it. The system is great for watching DVDs but not for watching TV which is probably 95% of the use it gets. I would not buy this. There are better systems out there for the same price.
Rating:
Summary: great for a small space
Review: might not be so good for a large space....volume is more limited than wired sets.....the wireless feature has limits that way. If you live in a small urban environment where you shouldn't be blowing your neighbors away anyway, then this is a great system for you.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't Buy This!
Review: My husband and I bought this for our living room and it was a complete disaster. First, we couldn't get it to work with our Tivo and cable system- the sound was distorted. We called the customer help line and after 3 hours- it finally worked... For about a month. Then, the dvd player began to play in black in white- in flashes- then go back to color. This was really frusterating-so we tried to get Philips to fix it, but they won't honor online reciepts for warranty issues. So, we took it to the local authorized repair service who charged us $50.00 to look at it- they determined it would cost $393.00 to fix the dvd player. This has been the worst electronics purchase we have ever made- stay clear of this product. We're going to toss it out and buy something else!
Rating:
Summary: POS...
Review: out of the box the unit was DOA... i will never purchase another philips product. wait until you have to deal with their customer service / repair division. you'll never purchase another philips product.
Rating:
Summary: POS...
Review: out of the box the unit was DOA... i will never purchase another philips product. wait until you have to deal with their customer service / repair division. you'll never purchase another philips product.
Rating: 
Summary: Not worth the price
Review: Pros: - Slim, cool looking design. - Fairly easy to set up. - Fairly easy to use (see DVD Fast-Forward and Rewind below.) - RF rear speakers reduce wires and work great! Cons: - CD player has to load the CD before you push Play. You can sit their waiting for 7 seconds before the CD is Loaded. It doesn't recognize when you push Play while loading. - DVD sound is kind of weird. The sounds are very loud, then you can't hear what the actors are saying. This could be a problem with other HTS's, I don't know, but it should have an adjustment for this (it doesn't). - DVD Fast-Forward and Rewind is weak and difficult to use. Ex. The Fast-Forward button is the same button as the Chapter Forward button. For Fast-Forward, you just hold it down. Well, it you forget this (as I have) you are suddnely in the next Chapter. Then the problem is getting back, as I said you have to hold down the Chapter Reverse or Chapter Fast-Forward button down for a second before it kicks in. then you have to do it again to get to the next speed (x2, x4, x8). x8 is the maximum search speed. Which is 3 times too slow. - No speaker stands. For this price, this is unacceptable. I would not recommend this system. It's way too expensive for what you get.
Rating: 
Summary: Clean look, clear sound
Review: Simple to set up, and the semi-wireless rear speakers are a great idea. There are a LOT of features packed into this set, which are added value. It sounds just as good playing CDs as DVDs (and even MP3s!). And we don't have wires straggling across the living room.
I do think that treble/bass controls would be really nice to have, and the slick design of the player puts some controls on TOP of the player, which means they are hard to use if this is placed above eye level. You also will NOT want to put anything on top of this (due to the controls, and the heat generated by the player, which has vents on the top).
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