LG’s Chocolate-y Home Cinema Rig June 26, 2007

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Getting tired of the LG Chocolate-everything yet? Anyway, home cinema enthusiasts are the target for the latest confectionery-styled offering, the LG J10HD Chocolate. This is a media jukebox with a DVD player and 80GB hard disk drive (HDD).

The J10HD sports a touchpad like that on the LG Chocolate mobile phone, and can playback CDs, DVDs, MPEG4 or DivX videos. The two speakers are rated at 75W and there’s a 150W subwoofer for giving your movie soundtracks some low-end grunt. CDs can be burned straight to the internal HDD and tunes or videos can transferred directly via USB from a PC, laptop or removable HDD.

The drive is good for around 100+ DivX movies or 20,000 MP3s and there’s a handy HDMI output.

Finally, there’s a pseudo-surround mode - VSM (Virtual Sound Matrix) – which will, allegedly, but doubtful , serve up a decent 5.1 experience. It costs £329 here. It’s due in next week and you can see the full specs after the jump.-Martin Lynch

LG J10HD Chocolate

Content Type Home Cinema/DVD/DivX with in-built 80 GB hard drive

Amplifier 300 W

Sound decoders DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby Prologic I and II

DSP Sound Mode

CD player Yes

DVD player Yes

Compatible CD-R/RW Yes

MP3 player Yes

Other read media WMA, VCD/SVCD, DivX 5.0

Remote Yes

Number of speakers 2

Subwoofer Yes

Power 150 W

A/V features Timeshift Radio Function

CD Ripping Function

Inputs USB port

Auxiliary input

Outputs 1 HDMI output

SCART connector

1 component video output

Included accessories Remote

Manual Information available soon

Size (mm) Central unit: 326 x 216 x 78

Speaker: 104 x 140 x 326

Subwoofer: 215 x 300 x 326

Weight (g) Information not provided

Other XDSS bass boost

TimeShift Function - Radio 30 mins

CD Ripping Function

RDS tuner with 50 presets

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