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Seen one of these (with no dvd player) for £125 (shop says its £250 less 50% offer).

Any good at that price?

Noticed its got no scart sockets or digital sockets though. Its to go with an existing - non Panasonic - dvd plus sky

Why would you buy it without the DVD? The £250 is for the whole thing including the DVD player. I`d go to Curry`s or Dixons and look at the complete setup and see how the DVD links into the amp.... you may find that it is not a standard connection. I have just bought the Philips LX8000 and it is good but nothing compared to an AV Amp separate and DVD player. I`d save your pennies and buy an AV Amp - you can get a slimline one for less than £150 at Richer Sounds though granted you will need speakers on top of that.

Cause its for my son for his bedroom and I have the dvd and need a small system. I aready have seperates with subwoofer etc as my main system

It has two normal audio in sockets so will take the dvd and sky.

As you say I could go to Richer Sounds, but they dont have in stock very cheap systems at the moment. And then there is the purchase of the speakers.

Anyone out there actually got the panasonic system?? Is it any good?

I have a Panasonic SA-HE7... its a wicked piece of kit... i even went and bought a panasonic dvd player afterwards, even got 5 year warranty from local panasonic centre free!

"I`m going to live forever, or die trying"...

Well I almost bought one. It had a couple of good reviews when I looked into it. Then I found it would not shuffle play MP3`s - which doesn`t matter to you - and I didn`t think it sounded as good as the Panasonic SCMT1 - which is too expensive for you and has a DVD player you don`t want. It is the smallest system you will find on the market I think - for a 5 speaker system anyway. So from what you say I reckon it should do the job for a good price - in fact I can`t think of anything else that would be in that price bracket and that size. Make sure you get the remote as you will need it to operate it as there are hardly any controls on the amp. I think this should be in the hardware forum though....

This item was edited on Tuesday, 9th December 2003, 19:59

I have this and its a cracking little system. However if theres no dvd player with it i dont advise you to get it because i dont think its possible to connect a different dvd player to it to obtain DTS/5.1 as theres no digital or coaxal input and the dvd player with it connects via a ribbon type cable. I might be wrong though but i hope that helps.

Thank you all I will go in and have a look at the intruction manual and see if I can get DTS/5.1. Unless anyone else out there knows. If not I will leave it.

I do wonder sometimes why they sell this stuff which actually may be worthless (unless you`ve got the DVD player) - do places like Dixons and Currys etc get audiophiles in their shops - don`t they tend to go to places like Richer Sounds and other specialist HiFi outlets?

Thank you Gouryella

I got the store down to £80 but then in checking with Panasonic found that I couldn`t get DTS/5.1 through the audio connections - so you were right. Back to the drawing board

:(

Try the Tchibo speakers and dolby decoder (search their website for Dolby). This is only £80 and looks pretty good to me. I have asked them the confirm that it will work with a DVD player with a co-axial 5.1 output. Once they have done so I`ll be placing an order.

Thanks

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