Philips HTS 3357

Advantages: Price, Sound, Picture, Features, Easy Install
Disadvantages: Drawer, Volume Options

Phillips HTS3357 The Phillips HTS3357 is a Up scaling DVD player and 5.1 Dolby Digital Home Cinema all in one, and for its price range you can't go wrong, In The Box: You get.. 1) Phillips HTS3357 2) Two Small Front Left and Right Speakers 3) 1 Long Center Speaker 4) Two Tall Left and Right Rear Speakers 5) One Bass Box Included Accessories: Remote Control, 2 x AAA Batteries, Scart Cable, MP3 Line-in cable, FM antenna, AM antenna, User Manual, ...
...very sleek design with an all silver colour and a front display glass cover in black, the speakers compliment this with all silver expect for the speak grills being black material, the front of the unit has controls for volume, Play, Pause, Rew and FF Source Input and all that is incorporated in two small jog wheels also on the front is your DVD drawer and Eject button and a USB connection point. The top and sides are plain silver and the rear is ... Read review

Advantages: Progressive scan, amazing sound , looks stylish
Disadvantages: Have to change channel or stop dvd to adjust sound

I think this has to be the best sourrond sound at such a low price the 2 rear floor standing speaker look cool in any home the sound is also awsome the bass from the 100watt sub really shakes the room my brother has a samsung 5.1 600watts sourround sound and he payed £249.99 as dose not even come close to the sound of mine The thing that made me but this was the hdmi socket as i has progressive scan witch you can see a massive differance in pic when ...
...thing i dont like about this cinima system is when you want to ajust the bass and speaker volume you have to stop the dvd to be able to adjust same as when in tv mode have to swicth tv over just to adjust it ` I rate this at 5 stars for the sound style and reliabilty ... Read review

Advantages: Digital Optical In (Coax), Good Speakers, Easy Setup, Nice Upscaling Playback.
Disadvantages: Coax Digital In, Disc Tray is a bit flimsy.

A good little system which gives you everything you could want from a DVD based HTS at the moment. Speakers give good sound, the upscaling is good and contrary to what the previous reviewer says it plays all kinds of burnt disks (CD & DVD), maybe it simply didn't like the ones he was using but I can confirm it works with DVD+R (dual and single layer). My only critism of this unit is that it's tray seems a little flimsy and flexes a bit if you push ...
...that). Otherwise setup is about as clear and simple as you can get and it's a nice unit. One thing to be wary of is that this unit's Digital-In is Coaxial rather than the more standard Optical (often called TOS Link). You CAN connect it to other digital audio devices but you will probably need a optical to coaxial adapter to do so (get 'em from Maplins). For the money and the features right now it's hard to find a better unit. ... Read review

Advantages: Uses pro logic surround, user freindly
Disadvantages: weak sub woofer.

Its perfect for an apartment type housing. Personaly i thnk the sub woofer is a little weak. The DVD player plays just about all the formats such as SVCD, MPEG, AVI and DIVX. One of the cool feature it had is the Ipod dock system. You can listen to your ipod and even watch movies from it, if you have a video Ipod. Just connect the AV connection to the dock and ready to watch. It will work with any type of Ipode or even Zune because it had the adapters ... Read review

Advantages: Good sound, good look
Disadvantages: No features, no ability to play burnt dvds

...am not a fan of philips home theater systems, yes they usually look nice and have some interesting looking speakers but they just don't perform to the same level as the competiton. This system will play both DVD and cd, it has an HDMI interface and it is a progressive scan unit, however, it will not play any burnt dvds regardless of format, it will not play DivX but it will play burnt cds. The instruction manual is easy to use, the wired speakers ... Read review