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The Toshiba SD-V55HT DVD/VCR home theater system is everything you need for exciting home theater except for the TV. Loaded with 400 watts of total power, Dolby Digital, DTS, and Pro-logic II decoding gives the SD-V55HT the firepower to surround you in 5.1 surround no matter what you’re listening to (except MP3’s and WMA’s, more on this later).

The DVD side of this system plays DVD’s, DVD-R/RW, CD, MP3/WMA CD’s, CD-R/RW, and VCD’s. The VCR side features a 4-head Hi-Fi design with quasi-SVHS playback (can play recorded S-VHS cassettes with VHS resolution). It also includes an AM/FM tuner with 50 station presets with station naming (it even includes an on-screen guide for radio staion selection, naming, and presets.

Up and running, the first thing you notice is the surprisingly good sound quality. Toshiba uses REAL dome tweeters in the satellite speakers which make the highs sound natural and really helps imaging in stereo or multi-channel mode (most HTiB systems use “fake piezo” tweeters or none at all). The mids from the 3 1/2″ speakers in the satellites are clean, articulate, and open sounding while the 7″ subwoofer pounds away with plenty of deep bass without sounding too boomy. The amplifier distributes 60 watts to each of the five satellites and 100 watts to the sub. In my medium size apartment living room, it delivers MORE than enough sound to make my neighbors complain.

The DVD side is typical which means great audio and video quality. The VCR side, though dated, seems of high quality with great looking VHS images and the Pro-logic II helps the tapes sound ALMOST as good as Dolby Digital. Bad news, the unit plays MP3’s and WMA’s but only in stereo, the surround processing cannot be applied to these discs. But, the good news is that this unit sounds so good in stereo, it’s not as much of an issue as it could be with a lower quality system.

You can even connect up to two audio/video components to this system and it even has an optical input for a video game or digital television. The speaker wires have proprietary phone jack type connectors that are designed to be used with this system so upgrading the speaker wire is not possible. At the other end of the wires is tinned bare wire so upgrading the speakers is a possibility but everything else is “built-in”. But, that’s the point of the HTiB: everything you need in one box without having to buy extra components. This is a good system, highly recommended.

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