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Summary: Stay away from Panasonic!
Review: Customer Service - the Panasonic website claims this is very important to them. I had my home theater only 3-4 months when a VCR tape got stuck. I has now been at the service center for almost 4 months! When I am lucky enough to get a response from Panasonic (which is rare), they make promises of completion and/or replacement. But promises won't play the DVD's my family would have liked to watch together over the holidays. When we finally got through to the customer service center on the phone, they had the nerve to hand up on us twice. IF YOU WANT A COMPANY TO STAND BEHIND THEIR PRODUCTS - STAY AWAY FROM PANASONIC!!! I have truly given up hope of even getting my home theater back from the Panasonic service center.
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Summary: DVD reader goes out after 2 years of use due to heat!
Review: Do not buy this player if you are considering it. It was nice for a couple of years but the DVD player Optical pickup unit(which from what I've read, commonly goes out on Panasonic) is failing. It was nice to get everything in one package but I recommend not getting an amp and DVD player in one case due to the heat issues. And I am now in the process of replacing this unit with Sony components(I should have done from the start!)
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Summary: Great Price, Great Sound and Visuals
Review: I bought the Panasonic SCHT80 for my mother for Christmas after doing some extensive research. I went to Bose and looked at their systems and Cambridge Sound, I checked out all of the on-line rating systems and even used Consumer Reports and all gave the Panasonic SCHT80 a great review. The sound is awesome and it is the most convenient thing to have a CD and DVD with speakers. I wanted to get my mother a system that was easy to use and understand. All I had to do was plug in the VCR and the Digital Cable box to the SCHT80 and you can watch television and hear it through the speakers on surround sound. On Christmas day when I got that bad boy out of the box and all hooked up it had even more than I had ever expected. I would recommend this to anyone who wants convenience, great sound, awesome visuals and all in one box with a price you can't beat.
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Summary: Great Price, Great Sound and Visuals
Review: I bought the Panasonic SCHT80 for my mother for Christmas after doing some extensive research. I went to Bose and looked at their systems and Cambridge Sound, I checked out all of the on-line rating systems and even used Consumer Reports and all gave the Panasonic SCHT80 a great review. The sound is awesome and it is the most convenient thing to have a CD and DVD with speakers. I wanted to get my mother a system that was easy to use and understand. All I had to do was plug in the VCR and the Digital Cable box to the SCHT80 and you can watch television and hear it through the speakers on surround sound. On Christmas day when I got that bad boy out of the box and all hooked up it had even more than I had ever expected. I would recommend this to anyone who wants convenience, great sound, awesome visuals and all in one box with a price you can't beat.
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Summary: Awesome sounds, a few complaints, but overall a great buy!
Review: I bought this system about a year ago after hearing it side-by-side to a Bose Lifestyles home theater system. The audio clarity and performace of this home theater easily performed on-par with, if not better than, the Bose system. This combined with the convenience of a 5-disc changer, good on-screen controls, and a well-designed remote controll, makes it a great overall value.As for the complaints: This system DOES NOT have additional Dolby Digital inputs, this means you cannot hook your digital cable or satilite systems to it and get true surround, you can hook up for stereo on simulated surround though. Another complaint is that it does not work with CD-R/RW's (at least not the revision that I have, they may have fixed this in the more recent versions). And my final complaint is that the speaker wire is built straight into the speaker enclosures, this means you will have to splice new wire on if the provide wiring is not long enough. It also means that you cannot add a heavier guage wire to the system to increase performance. That being said, I still love this system. For the amount of $$$ that I spent on it, it easily was worth it, and I will buy another Panasonic when the time is right.
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Summary: What's not to like? Only 1 thing:
Review: I do love this system for all the reasons others stated, but what nobody mentioned that prevents me giving it 5 stars is that the speaker wires are hard-wired into the back of the speakers!! How much money could this nonsense have possibly saved? Believe me, pulling wire through a false ceiling (or anywhere else) is a whole bunch easier without a speaker stuck to one end. And what if you already have wiring in place? Well, seems like a minor point that didn't bother anyone else, but I wish I'd had this foreknowledge...
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Summary: SC-HT80 will NOT play new DVD and CDS
Review: I own a Panaconic SC-HT80. For the first 2 years no problem. Paid almost $700. Now it will not read any new CD's or DVD's. You can not use a rewritten CD on the system. Renting from Blockbuster is a hit or miss if DVD's will play. My local repair person tells me there is nothing wrong with the unit. Panasonic will not offer any spport. Buyer beware!!!!!!
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Summary: I own tons of these things, so I know everything. Really.
Review: Maybe I don't. However, I do own this bad boy. I call it bad because we have trouble with DVD playback and the fact that the speakers are hardwired and one of the wonder mutts has a love affair with wiring. We checked, but the vet doesn't remove teeth, just claws from cats. Luckily we live right up the road from someone who knows how to fix these things and has a license to do so. Unluckily, he thinks he should be paid for such activities and he doesn't accept dogs in payment. More often than we like we have trouble with playback on a DVD. It messes up frequently. We find that we have to clean it often, no the dog can't reach it, to keep the picture from disintegrating in seizure inducing fun. The sound though, well just oh my gawd. I can lay in the middle of the living room and listen to the clarity with joy. Even better we can move the speakers to hang beside the half-deaf guy on the couch so we can actually turn down the volume.
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Summary: I own tons of these things, so I know everything. Really.
Review: Maybe I don't. However, I do own this bad boy. I call it bad because we have trouble with DVD playback and the fact that the speakers are hardwired and one of the wonder mutts has a love affair with wiring. We checked, but the vet doesn't remove teeth, just claws from cats. Luckily we live right up the road from someone who knows how to fix these things and has a license to do so. Unluckily, he thinks he should be paid for such activities and he doesn't accept dogs in payment. More often than we like we have trouble with playback on a DVD. It messes up frequently. We find that we have to clean it often, no the dog can't reach it, to keep the picture from disintegrating in seizure inducing fun. The sound though, well just oh my gawd. I can lay in the middle of the living room and listen to the clarity with joy. Even better we can move the speakers to hang beside the half-deaf guy on the couch so we can actually turn down the volume.
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Summary: "Bose" quality for a realistic price
Review: Ok its not as good as the bose system, but for the fraction of the price it's good. I really can't tell the difference between mine system and my brothers bose which cost 1500 dollars more without a dvd player. If you have super sensitive ears and your loaded get the "bose system" if you looking for a dvd/audio theater system that sounds great, plays cds, dvds and really looks good too, get the panasonic
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