When it rains, it pours, and no sooner did we unpack the Paradigm
SUB 25 than the new Samsung
AS730 HTIB showed up at our doorstep. The AS730 came in its own fairly big box chock full of good stuff -- for 500 clams, you get a 5.1-channel speaker set (four identical front and surround channels, a center and a powered subwoofer), a receiver, remote, iPod dock, calibration mic and even cables to hook everything up. As you'd expect from a HTIB system, all the cables are color-coded to help users get things set up quickly -- unfortunately that color coding couldn't help us navigate the tightly-spaced speaker connections. Sure enough, it's pretty crowded around the back of the receiver, with enough connections to wire up prospective buyers' systems via HDMI, component and composite. Best of all, there's some room for expansion as well, with 7.1-channel analog inputs and 7.1-channel speaker taps. We'll put this package in the review queue and report back when we've got a story to tell; until then, feel free to check the pics of the not-so photo-friendly glossy black kit after the break.
posted Apr 15th 2009 9:47AM
I'd like to see if it has any hdmi sync issues, being able to control the volume with the tv remote through hdmi-cec, behaving when you change channels with different resolutions, going from a game on a ps3 to a blue ray, etc. The samsung as720 is notorious for these problems.
at least it looks pretty
Samsung makes some great looking tv's - some of the best. However, their new blu-ray player with the flip down front and this HTIB are just plain FUGLY. The "piano" finish I think still looks great on tv's but it is way out of place on avr's and other component pieces. Just my opinion.
This is cool gadget. Samsung is one of the top most brands. This gadget is applicable also for their Samgsung HD TV too? I hope so. I newly heard this gadget. Thanks for sharing this one to us. You can visit also http://hdtvreviewsblog.co.uk/