800-Watt DVD Home Theater System with USB Plug-and-Play
Disappointing.
This was my first surround sound home theater. I used it in a small apartment living room. I am by no means an audiophile.<br /><br />I bought this model at a local electronics retailer. I ended up exchanging it for another unit of the same model because the DVD player skipped.<br /><br />The one new unit had a completely separate problem: the color would periodically fade from the picture while watching DVDs, a problem which I traced to the receiver's S-video output port. I ended up returning the second unit for a full refund.<br /><br />Despite my experience with the HT-P38, I am willing to acknowledge that I just had really bad luck. Despite that possiblity, this model had other drawbacks that I was not willing to live with. The biggest drawback was that despite having a 5-disc carousel, if you are watching a DVD or listening to a CD and want to fill an empty tray, it stops the playback; you cannot \\"play and exchange\\" with this model. In my mind, there is no point in having a multiple disc tray if you cannot play and exchange.<br /><br />I ended up buying a JVC TH-C3, which I am much happier with: higher wattage (which admittedly isn't an accurage guage of performance), better frequency range on the subwoofer, \\"play and exchange\\" capability, easy control of each of the speakers from the remote.