home cinema advice

[rickyg01]

looking for a new home cinema system,
looking to spend about £300/400.
roughly 500watts or more,
any advice?

[Uncle Peter]

Firstly, consider what you actually want to do with it. Many of the fully integrated systems available around that price point don't have any facility to connect additional video sources, for example: games consoles, dvd recorders or digital receivers.

If you need these facilities it might be worth spending a bit extra if you can and buying a dedicated, separates AV receiver/decoder and speakers package or putting the bits together yourself.

[rickyg01]

http://www.littlewoods.com/rf/naviga...3&productPos=2

found it local for 300 tho

[zinglebarb]

Im a seperates man myself. You say 500 watts but quality is better than quantity. Have a look on richersounds

[Impacted]

Mr Zinglebart is right again!! If you can hold off until they are having an "open box" sale you can pick up a real bargain. That where I got mine cost me £60 instead of £200 odd.

Cheers

IMP

[webcrawler2050]

Personally id wait - a little bit - when you think on it as quick as you spend £600 on the system it will be out of date. The sound isn't so bad, more on the lines of the telly.

I bought my 32" a few years back when 1080p / 1080i was coming in and its still a ruddy good telly now - HDMI etc

[handyman]

I got a samsung dvd job, cost only £120 but is nor reduced to £99
http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/pro.../specification

Best thing is the usb port on the front which allows me to plug in an external hd full of saved recordings or stuff I've downloaded. It even supports divx. I have a 3 way splitter for incoming audio from sky+ and Computer which also handles the video to the projector.

Sound quality is great, really impressed.