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Re: Recommend good "out of the box" home theater?
Joe
I actually recently bought the Panasonic 760, 1 step down from the 960 you are looking at. I actually will be returning it to Best Buy after this weekend. The system itself isnt a bad one by any means, I'm new to home theatre myself and the system actually produced decent sound. I'm in a similar sized room as you (18x12) but ive quickly realized there are other options that are much better but similarly priced.
regarding the wireless speakers, i think you would be just as good without them because honestly there isnt much comin out of them whether its music, DVDs or the PS3. the system also leaves much to be desired regarding inputs & outputs, and theres pretty much no way you can upgrade it, you are stuck with it, and even the guy at best buy told me probably within the year one of the speakers will crap out on me.
some of the other options you might want to take a gander at are
onkyo sr-800 (shoponkyo.com) can be had for ~350 shipped
samsung as720 - on sale at best buy for around 500ish i think
i would imagine even if you got a decent receiver, a center channel, left and right front speakers and some sort of decent sub and you would be way ahead of what the panasonic will do. also since u have the ps3 the dvd player in there doesnt help you either.
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