Any idea how this one is - philips HTS3545 ?

hi.

thinking of buying our first HTiB. It will be in the living room of our apartment, so need not be too powerful.

* will mainly be for DVD viewing and regular TV enhancement.

* As we have have a few outside region dvd, it needs to be unlockable (I guess all of them are).

* The Philips one seems to be in the right price range.

http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer...

So does the Sony DAV-DZ150

http://www.sony.co.in/product/dav-dz150k...

The Philips has USB direct as an added feature but no idea if thats a real plus, as we dont have an iPod or equivalent.

The Yamahas/Denons are above the price range I have in mind, and not easily available here in India.

Have you heard/used either or these?

All comments welcome.

Thanks!

Its a HTIB what do you expect. The Denon and Yamahas will blow the Sony and Philips away in performance. You give price as a issue, so if you want a warm fuzzy feeling about the unit I will not give it! These are cost cut units to move product. The whole idea from Denon and Onkyo and Yamaha for HTIBs are a bedroom/dorm system not a main unit. To these companies sound quality comes first.

The HTIB ( started by SONY by the way ) has single handedly done the more damage to home cinema than anything else ( including Ben Affleck) . You don't have to spend a arm and a leg to get the best out of a system. But buy separates ( even used ) and get better bang for your buck. hey i bought this HT just last week and I have to say if you are looking for playability and usb functionality.. this system rocks.. usb plays even the DVD vob files and all divx files.. however, it doesn't sound as good as sony though.. the sound is not bad either.. it gives pretty good performance and the good thing is even the external sources are dolby processed, unlike sony. The radio quality simply rocks!! not to forget it also has HDMI, at the end of the day its a great value for money product.

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