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RCA RTD255 5-Disc DVD Home Theater System

RCA RTD255 5-Disc DVD Home Theater System

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Features:
  • 5-DVD/CD changer; 400 watts total system power: 55 watts x 4 (front and rear left/right), 90 watts x 2 (center speaker, subwoofer)
  • DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, and Dolby Pro Logic decoding; Dolby Pro Logic II generates 5.1 surround signals from any stereo (2-channel) source
  • Plays MP3 music CDs and JPEG digital photo CDs
  • Play exchange lets you load 4 discs while 1 is playing
  • Digital FM/AM tuner with 40 station presets and autoscanning; includes universal remote control


Description:

RCA's RTD255 complete home theater system plays all your movies, music, and even your digital photo CDs. It comes with a 5-disc, progressive-scan DVD/CD player integrated with a high-power surround-sound receiver and a multichannel speaker system--everything you need to play, amplify, and enjoy your digital entertainment. (A television is not included.)

The system's central unit merges a DVD/CD player and audio/video surround receiver. The disc player spins DVDs and CDs, from standard audio discs to recordable CDs filled with MP3 music files or JPEG digital photos. The receiver powers the supplied 5.1-channel speaker system (front and rear left/right, center speaker, and passive subwoofer) with 55 watts per channel x 4 (front and rear left/right) and a powerful 90 watts each for the critical center-channel speaker and the included 6.5-inch passive subwoofer.

The system's discrete Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel audio decoding lets you enjoy spacious, full-bodied surround effects from commercial DVDs and DTS surround-sound music CDs. Your Dolby Pro Logic-encoded VHS tapes will sound great in 4-channel surround (left, center, right, and monaural left/right surround), and the system even features Dolby Pro Logic II, special processing that generates 5.1 mixes in realtime from any stereo (2-channel source).

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the RTD255 is equipped to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

The RTD255 also performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; reverse 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.

The system offers 1 each component-, composite-, and S-video outputs and 2 stereo analog (left/right RCA) audio inputs.

A drift-free, digital FM/AM tuner offers 40 station presets with auto station scanning so your favorite stations are never more than a button-push away, and a headphone jack lets you listen in private. For night listening without headphones, the system offers 2 compression modes to minimize dramatic increases in sound level between quiet and loud movie passages.

What's in the Box
DVD player/integrated surround amplifier, 4 satellite speakers, a center speaker, a passive subwoofer, a remote control (RCR311AC1), remote batteries, a composite-video cable, AM/FM antennas, MusicMatch MP3-creation software (CD-ROM), a user's manual, all requisite speaker cabling.

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