Philips HTS6500

50% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

The Philips HTS6500 is a high-style virtual-surround home-theater system that offers upscaling DVD playback via its HDMI output. In addition to DVDs and CDs, it plays a wide variety of file formats including DivX; MPEG-1, -2, and -4; MP3; WMA; and JPEG...

The HTS6500's passive subwoofer lacks precision and punch, and you can't independently control the subwoofer's volume. Sound customization options are very limited. The virtual-surround effect doesn't match the surround-sound capabilities of a true...

The unremarkable sound quality of the Philips HTS6500 is outweighed by its winning combination of slick aesthetics, impressive features, and affordable pricing.

The Philips HTS6500 is a high-style virtual-surround home-theater system that offers upscaling DVD playback via its HDMI output. In addition to DVDs and CDs, it plays a wide variety of file formats including DivX; MPEG-1, -2, and -4; MP3; WMA; and JPEG...

The HTS6500's passive subwoofer lacks precision and punch, and you can't independently control the subwoofer's volume. Sound customization options are very limited. The virtual-surround effect doesn't match the surround-sound capabilities of a true...

The unremarkable sound quality of the Philips HTS6500 is outweighed by its winning combination of slick aesthetics, impressive features, and affordable pricing.

Easy to setup, loud enough for my room ; Easy to update firmware; read and follow instructions and it's done

It is a 2.1 HTIB not 5.1 and does not even come close to sounding like a 5.1 HTIB. Remote or main unit is flakey, cannot intermittentely control any functions with the remote ; Sometimes need to get up to 6" of it for remote to "maybe" work and yes the...

Good price for all in one device

Swallows DVDs which have to be removed with a tweezer. Remote works sporadically, even with fresh batteries

Set up was a snap and it sounds great. Very loud and clear sound. Price was too attractive to pass up compared to the Bose or other systems. It really does sound like some of the 5.1 systems I have had in the past

DVD's look terrible. I can't even watch them it is so bad. I had a $40 Zenith dvd player from the spare room on here and it looked 10 times better. I tried the componant and HDMI connection and it still looks terrible on my 50" Samsung Plasma. I...

Complete package for a basic home theater in a small room or apartment/condo ; Does everything you need it to do including playing xvid/divx movies and mp3s in one small package ; Has a great price ; Sound is decent, but nothing compare to a 7.1 THX...

Does not play mpg4 movies ; Navigating long mp3 lists is not easy ; Only displays the first 8 character s in a file name

Good Sound, Good Price, supports lots of file types

No problem with the gear but just make sure you understand that this is a 2.1 NOT a 5.1 system

Sound, dvd upconvert, hdmi, usb mp3 input ect

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