Sony’s 'Invisible' Home Cinema April 03, 2007
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Clutter. Anyone with a healthy gadget obsession will have lots of it. In the modern living room, it’s usually in evidence through a mass of wires and cabling snaking around the floor and walls and more remote controls than the fingers to use them. Sony thinks that by hiding the home cinema in the TV stand, it will make life easier and less cluttered. It could have a point.
This is the Bravia Home Theatre RHT-G800, a TV stand that cleverly houses a home cinema speaker set-up. The stand is home to the S-Master Amp powering 5 x 70W speakers and a pair of subwoofers rated at 120W. It uses pseudo [fake] surround technology - Sony S-Force PRO Front Surround – to produce the rear effects and there are six sound fields to choose from: Standard, Cinema, News, Sports, Music and Night Mode.
It also comes with a handy pair of HDMI inputs and can take up to four devices (TV, DVD recorder, PS3 etc).
However, this is more than just a shell for audio/video components because it also features its own touch-panel control that uses the new Bravia Theatre Sync technology. When used with Bravia TVs and new Sony DVD players, one button will turn everything thing on, and off. Anything requiring less remotes is a good thing.
Due out in May, it will cost around £700.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
700 notes for psuedo surround sound?? sod that...
I can get that same pseudo effect by blowing some air through my butt cheeks!
Pfff don't act like an retard this design is ment to be a design system, if you want real soud quality this not the thing but it looks and works great