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Philips HTS5500C Review

Stylishly designed with sleek lines in silver and a compact sensibility, the Philips HTS5500C home theater system can handle just about any disc and multi-channel sound format you can throw at it. The amplifier's integrated 5-disc DVD changer is compatible with a wide variety of disc formats and digital files, including DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, MP3, WMA, JPEG (Picture CD), MPEG4, and DivX. It also offers a digital AM/FM radio tuner features a total of 20 station presets, auto tuning, and auto store functionality. The Philips HTS5500C provides 900 total watts of power (6 x 150 watts per channel), and includes a passive subwoofer, center channel speaker, and four satellite speakers.

The built-in DTS and Dolby Digital decoders eliminate the need for an external decoder by processing all six channels of audio information to provide a surround sound experience and an astoundingly natural sense of ambience and dynamic realism. Dolby Pro Logic II provides five channels of surround processing from any stereo source. Its 192 KHz sampling enables you to have an accurate representation of the original sound curves. Together with a 24-bit resolution, more information is captured from the original analogue sound wave form, giving a much richer audio reproduction. Other features include color-coded connectors for simple set-up, PAL/NTSC playback, JPEG photo slideshows (with zoom and rotate functionality), and tri-lingual menu display (English, French, Spanish). It offers the following video and audio connections:

• Composite AV (RCA) Out: 1

• S-Video Out: 1

• Component Video Out (Y PB PR): 1

• RF In: 1

• Coaxial digital audio Out: 1

• AM and FM antenna

• Headphone

The speakers offer the following specifications:

• Subwoofer: 8-inch high-efficiency woofer

• Center Channel: 1-inch conical dome tweeter, two 3-inch full range woofers (magnetically shielded)

• Satellites: 1-inch conical dome tweeter, 3-inch full range woofer (magnetically shielded)

Tech Talk

Picture CD is a CD-R or CD-RW disc on which you can store your MP3 and digital pictures. When inserting a Picture CD in the DVD player, a screen menu will pop up, showing your JPEG's and/or MP3 files on the disc. Just select the music and pictures files you wish to enjoy and press play or OK. You can watch your pictures on TV with your music playing simultaneously.

Dynamic Bass Boost maximizes your music enjoyment by emphasizing the bass content of the music throughout the range of volume settings--from low to high--at the touch of a button. Bottom-end bass frequencies usually get lost when the volume is set at a low level. To counteract this, Dynamic Bass Boost can be switched on to boost bass levels, so you can enjoy consistent sound even when you turn down the volume

What's in the Box?

5-disc DVD player/amplifier, six speakers (subwoofer, center channel, four satellites), speaker cables, power cord, remote control (with batteries), AM/FM antenna, AV cable, Quick Start guide, printed operating instructions

So what features does the Philips HTS5500C Have?

• Component Type: Home theater system

• Included Components: DVD changer / AV receiver

• Audio Output Mode: Surround Sound

• Built in Decoder: Dolby Pro Logic II, Dolby Digital, DTS decoder

• Audio Output Effects: Dynamic Bass Boost (DBB)

• Equalizer: Yes

• Output Channel Quantity: 6

• Tuner Technology: Digital

• Radio Bands Supported: AM/FM

• Turntable Type: None

• Cassette System Type: None

• CD System: None

• Mini Disc System: None

• DVD Type: DVD changer

• DVD Disk Changer Type: Carousel

• DVD Disk Capacity: 5

• DVD Playback Mode: Program, A-B repeat, All, Title, Chapter

• Remote Control Description: Universal remote control

• Audio Output Type: None

• Audio Input: None

• Width: 17.1 inches

• Height: 2.9 inches

• Weight: 40.6 pounds

• Warranty: 1 year warranty

Conclusion

This stylish and compact full digital Philips HTS5500C home entertainment system plays practically any disc in high quality Dolby or DTS surround sound. So relax and fully immerse yourself in movies and music in your own personal environment.

Best DVD Recorder Reviews Rating

8/10

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