Panasonic SC-BTT370 5.1 Channel Price Review

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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars Great product, certainly reccomended!, April 6, 2011
By SparXXXie See all my reviews This review is from: Panasonic SC BTT370 5.1 Channel 3D Blu ray theater Surround Home Entertainment System (Electronics) I got this system in March after pre ordering it. I have had last good luck with Panasonic home theater systems so I waited purchasing an upgrade till this has been released this year. And I am happy I did. What a great product. I have had it for two weeks now and I am really impressed with this system. I do not have a 3D TV, I only use this system for Bluray discs. You don’t have to own a 3D TV to use this as a bluray system.

I’ve shopped around for other home theater systems for a long time. I have gone to many electronics stores, Fry’s, Best purchase, Target, but I wasn’t impressed with any of the other brands out there. Sony, Samsung, LG, I really believe this Panasonic system beats them all by quality, sound, picture, and features.

Likes:

Viera Cast: fitted prepared to go WiFi for streaming netflix, vudu, and many other services. This thing will also do Skype!

Down firing subwoofer: Panasonic changed the subwoofer so it fires the bass into your floor, creating a theater like boom and experience. And let me tell you, this subwoofer really rumbles my condo. The bass is deep, no distortion whatsoever when I have cranked this system really deafening. I am really impressed with the design of the subwoofer. If you want to watch movies silently or crank it up throughout an action packed movie, the bass made by this system is totally jaw dropping.

Cinema Surround Sound The theater surround sound feature you may be able to turn on really increases the surround effect of movies, making this 5.1 system sound like a 7.1 system. I recommend turning the rear surround speakers up, you may be able to customize every speaker and how deafening you want them to be. You may be able to increase the bass output. The surround sound made is clear, crisp, sounds excellent, and throughout actions scenes you do not realize that it is the superb surround experience making your heart pound, not the movie.

2 HDMI Inputs & Optical In: The SC BTT370 lets you to connect your xbox or ps3 or whatever has an HDMI source straight to the unit, so you do not have a ton of fussing and forgetting which system is hooked straight to your TV and what setting you’re supposed to be on. I have my xbox directly connected to the surround sound system and it works flawlessly.

Picture: The deep color and full 1080p picture renders beautifully. I’m breathless when watching bluray movies on this system. The Netflix and VUDU streaming services are integrated nicely, and look stunning also. I watched U 571 and Blawhawk Down last night, and I still could not believe how clear and beautiful the picture was.

3D Discs: I don’t have a 3D TV, and you don’t need a 3D TV to use this player. I talked to many people who bought this system, and they rave about the 3D potential and I believe it. They told me this play blows the PS3 out of the water by 3D generating and detail.

Dislikes: None

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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of five stars Great sound, but annoying software restrictions, June 2, 2011
By Los Angeles one See all my reviews This review is from: Panasonic SC BTT370 5.1 Channel 3D Blu ray theater Surround Home Entertainment System (Electronics) 1st the positive:

The sound that comes out of this little unit is amazing. The small size is just unbelievable, and the unit never gets hot. I has been worried because this unit doesn’t have a powered subwoofer, but the bass is deafening and leaves me impressed and not wanting more. As well, the speaker grills are metal and lasting (not cloth covers, like on last models). I love the Vieracast internet available content. With my fast internet connection, the movies from Vudu load instantly and look nearly better than my live FIOS HD picture. I also love the German news Vieracast app, I just wish they had more apps on the unit. The FM radio is better than projected.

But there are many pretty annoying negatives:

The problem with this unit is the software. Though the GUI looks pretty, it has many serious restrictions. Last Panasonic units could remember what input you were last using when you turned them off, and the next time you turned them on could already be switched to that input. On this unit, but, that doesn’t happen. I only use this unit to watch my cable’s STB which is plugged into the unit’s HDMI 1 input. But, EVERY TIME I turn the unit on, it goes back to the default HOME screen (where you have to graphically decide what you could input you could like to use) rather than going directly to the HDMI 1 input. This extra and needless step stops me from just using my one cable tv remote to turn on my TV, my STB, and this unit. I can use that other remote to turn this unit on, but I STILL have to use the remote that came with this unit to navigate away from the HOME screen and tell it to switch to HDMI 1. This is very annoying and it really doesn’t seem right why Panasonic made this change from last year’s model.

Another annoying software problem is that it takes FOREVER to switch to the HDMI inputs. I do not know what the unit is doing while it it switching to the HDMI input (analyzing, thinking, whatever), but it takes about 5 7 seconds before my STB’s image appears on the connected TV. This is in direct contrast to switching inputs on my Panasonic TV, where switching HDMI inputs is nearly instant.

So, the big negative is that it takes about 20 seconds to turn on the unit, grab the remote, navigate away from the HOME screen to the HDMI input, , then wait, wait, wait, till it activates the input and really puts a picture out on the connected TV. For me, this is way too long, particularly if I just want to fire the unit up real fast to watch many fast news throughout lunch.

I am considering returning this unit for this reason, though the excellent price and the excellent sound it puts out makes my choice hard.

If you are not a time conscious person, maybe the unit’s slooooow input switching won’t annoy you. Or the fact that you have to go through the HOME menu EVERY time you turn the unit on. In that case, this will be a great unit for you. You will love the sound you will get out if it!

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of five stars Good sound for entry HTiB, missing extras, September 11, 2011
By David J. Zemens “witty anonymous quotation” (ROC, Michigan) See all my reviews
(REAL NAME) This review is from: Panasonic SC BTT370 5.1 Channel 3D Blu ray theater Surround Home Entertainment System (Electronics) We just bought this as our 1st home theater system and so far the sound quality was excellent. We also enjoy the apps included (mainly the Pandora app) to listen to music.

Set up was pretty simple, though the basic information don’t include information for connecting a DVR/set top cable box/etc. And that requires many extra steps and another HDMi or optical cable to make all the connections.

But there are some number of things that are really disappointing to me. Though there’s a USB port, it doesn’t seem to recognize any USB devices I attached (two WD external hard drives and a Philips MP3 player).According to their online tech support the USB port “is only for a wireless LAN adaptor. It isn’t for connecting anything else.” This is weird, because this system is already wireless.

This system does does have an SD card slot, but the tech support indicates that it only supports four file types: MPEG2, AVCHD, JPEG and MPO. That means that the SD card reader won’t play MOV, MP4, MP3, AVI, RM or any of the other common multimedia file types. So far, this system was unable to recognize any of the three SD cards I tried to use. I think they have to be “formatted” 1st. So much for plug and play; you won’t be able to take the SD card from your camcorder and plug it in to watch your movies.

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