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January 2008
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The editors liked
Smart looks
Convenience
Easy to use
Hgihly practical form factor
Genuine surround sound effect
Innovative
Stylish and ultra practical design. Impressive picture quality with HD upscaling. Lots of features
Wide and clear soundstage with movies. iPod dock included
Upscaling 1080p DVD player
Stylish and well built
Impressive front room performance
Stylish
Space-saving design
Fuss-free set up
1080p video upscaling
Versatile connectivity
Impressive image quality
The editors didn't like
Poor bass integration
Weak soundstage
Poor stereo imaging
No HDMI input
No optical/coaxial digital audio inputs. Doesn’t really deliver much surround sound information. Uses a wire (the horror!) to connect the subwoofer to the main bar
Innovative, stylish and ultra practical design. Impressive picture quality with HD upscaling. Lots of features, wide and clear soundstage with movies. iPod dock included
No optical/coaxial digital audio inputs. Doesn’t really deliver much surround sound information. Uses a wire (the horror!) to connect the subwoofer to the main bar
It never quite sounds like a true surround system, but the HTS8100 still hits a near-perfect balance between style, convenience and performance ...
Abstract: The HTS8100 is arguably the most extreme all-in-one system weve yet seen. For remarkably its entire electronics are somehow crammed into just two boxes: a straightforward subwoofer, and a metre-long speaker bar that miraculously contains the DVD deck, tun...
Stylish, space-saving design; fuss-free set up; 1080p video upscaling; versatile connectivity; impressive image quality
Expensively priced; subwoofer means it isnt totally discreet; compromised sound quality
The Philips SoundBar HTS8100 is an excellent solution for style-conscious buyers with limited time and space to set up a true surround system, but youll have to accept a few sonic compromises ...
Hgihly practical form factor, Genuine surround sound effect
Poor stereo imaging, No HDMI input
You have to take your hat off to Philips for coming up with the most innovative and literal interpretation of the one-box home cinema solution. Its SoundBar is easily the most practical TV-friendly form-factor in its class. But given that the 2.1 speak...
Abstract: With the Philips Ambisound HTS8100, you don’t need five separate speakers to enjoy surround sound in your living room. Miraculously its speakers, amplifier and DVD/CD player are all contained within a 13 cm-thin box. This design concept - the sound...
The builtin DVD player is an added bonus; many other sound bars, costing as much as 50 percent more, do not offer this, An included subwoofer provides bass energy, filling out the sound very nicely. It's not a Sunfire or a Velodyne subwoofer, but you'll certainly be glad to have it in the system, This sound bar provides very strong video quality for legacy DVDVideo discs, Philips offers an i
The HTS8100 has no video inputs, meaning you will need to connect your video sources to your TV set, While it provides decent surround sound, audio could be more powerful. Try using this one in a smaller room for best results, The unit doesn't support the latest HD audio codecs for HD surround sound from Bluray, as Dolby True HD and DTS HD do.
All said, this is a nice little speaker package - a DVD player, a subwoofer, an all-in-one virtual surround speaker, and an iPod dock - that is a pretty darn good deal, considering what all these various components would cost separately. The video qual...
Abstract: Can the all-in-one soundbar really replace a dedicated home theater system? The emergence of the soundbar audio genre can be traced to two trends: 1) consumers’ desire to buy slender, space-saving speaker systems to match their slender, space-saving...
DVD player provides a quality image, Very short learning curve, Low power standby mode
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s The HTS8100 is a solid performer and the surround technology does its job in a straightforward fashion that doesn’t require any learning curve in order to get it to work. This unit makes for a welcome addition where all the accouterments of a ...
