JBL Cinema ProPack 600II 8-Piece Home Cinema System (Gray)

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Summary: Don't bother.
Review: I've had one of these for about a year now and I wouldn't do it again. It still sounds good, but the remote is awful and the dvd player is buggy. On mine, it will occasionally lose the picture for no apparent reason, and the only way to get it back is to turn it off and restart the disc.

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Summary: Don't bother.
Review: I've had one of these for about a year now and I wouldn't do it again. It still sounds good, but the remote is awful and the dvd player is buggy. On mine, it will occasionally lose the picture for no apparent reason, and the only way to get it back is to turn it off and restart the disc.

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Summary: TOO BAD ZERO ISN'T AN OPTION
Review: SAVE YOUR MONEY,AND AVOID HEADACHES.
FROM THE START I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM AS MENTIONED IN OTHER REVIEWS. THE DVD TRAY DID NOT OPEN.
I DID CALL JBL AND ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY SHIPPING SCREWS THAT HAD TO BE REMOVED, AND WAS ADVISED THAT THERE WEREN'T ANY. BUT WAS TOLD THE DVD PLAYER WAS DEFECTIVE AND TO RETURN FOR ANOTHER UNIT. THE OUTPUT OF THE RECEIVER IS MEDIOCRE AT BEST. NO MID RANGE SOUND. THE SUBWOOFER WAS MUDDY AND DISTORTED.
THERE AREN'T ANY CONTROLS ON THE SUBWOOFER.
I DID RETURN THE UNIT AS INSTRUCTED AND PURCHASED A DIFFERENT BRAND.

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Summary: JBL CINEMA PROPACK II
Review: The receiver portion of the unit I purchased in January '03 has failed twice. JBL customer service is terrible. The system is buggy, prone to shutting down/resetting and overly complex. It no longer appears on JBL's website which I take to mean it is discoutinued.

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Summary: Excellent product for the price.
Review: This Home Theater is basically the same as the earlier Propack 600. The main difference is that the 600II plays MP3 and cd-r. The sound is very good considering the price (...at [a local store] with 10% off that). The remote is a little hard to get used to especially for a person with big hands. I would definetly recommend this system if you are looking for a HTIB in this price range.

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Summary: Cinema ProPack 600II has worked well for over 1 1/2 years
Review: We've had this system setup for over 1 1/2 years with no problems at all. It has a good sound that more than fills a 400 s.f. area (tile floors help). The remote is the only minor complaint, as many others have already mentioned. We're about to add a pair of outdoor speakers to the system and aren't sure yet how to do that (the receiver's speaker outputs are limited to the 5 speakers that come with it) but I'm sure there's a way. We feel we got a good bargain on this system and are very pleased with it.

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Summary: Nothing but trouble
Review: When it works, this system is great. It just doesn't work very often. I purchased mine in December 2002, and began to have trouble by May 2003. Since then it has been in the shop five times. The dvd player crashes often, won't open, hurls discs off the tray scratching them severely...the receiver is even worse. Twice in the last 18 months, the sound goes out completely. Absolutely no signal to the speakers. The service centers are a rip-off, one guy charged me seventy bucks to just look at the thing, then told me it would cost three hundred to fix it. yeah, right...I looked for one on ebay, and trust me, do NOT buy this thing used, or you will wind up with one that doesn't play sound. These manufacturers need to get the message that assembling this junk in third world countries and trying to sell it here as high quality stuff is a crime.