Good hardware mediocre software

Good hardware mediocre software

Philips HTB5580G / 12 5.1 Blu-ray home theater system (4x tower speaker, 3D, 1000 watts RMS, Smart TV, Bluetooth) (Electronics)

Customer Review

The structure is designed very simple and intuitive, there was technically no problem. Really disturbing was the Tixo with the Sackerl are taped at the end of the cable that you get with your fingers barely on only one I could open without a knife, which of course carries the risk of infringing cable.
The activate the rear speakers is not described in the Quick Launch description, so you need a PC to the enclosed CD to read.
Even my last home theater was Philips, the sound has become noticeably but does not improve the software! still there is no real browser for USB or PC, it's really on the lower end in terms of use.

Still I miss inputs for 3D sound from your PC, it would certainly be no technical difficulty because now some jack slots for all boxes integrate.
Therefore, good product but much room for improvement in every respect. Price / performance ratio still good.

Update: The manual on the CD is a must, many settings are not accessible via the "Home" menu, but have their own key on the keyboard, which may be convenient but subsequently learn for itself, it is a little tiring, it deviates too much to think of the way you are used to on the PC.

The Bluetooth Connectivity to PC does not work does not have purchased a Bluetooth USB stick, which recognizes the plant and also intalliert, but the PIN code request is lt. Manual and it will not connect.
What is working well the DLNA connection to PC Browse, I have the program Serviio used, but it seems to me that, with the surround sound in MKV files are as a fundamental problem.
Now have an optical cable ordered and will therefore try to establish a connection.

Compared to the old Philips plant is also noticed that the device does not turn off together with the TV, you have it off separately, one forgets that one hears power up the drive regularly, annoying at night, sounds like rebooting a PC ,
I think the software is still in beta-phase :-(, since you can only hope for an update, after about 10-30 minutes DLNA Streaming turns the drive off, not that you would need it, but thus freezes all device and thus the image. Only after pressing Pause Play you can hear how the drive clamoring restarts and after a few seconds of film continues but skips one those few seconds and only once has to rewind.

The optical cable works, but you have the PC only teach 3D sound, which is a bit complicated. The player is a bit sluggish when it is not used continuously, then it seems to go in a two-phase standby, one of the first phase, he is still there, but need 1-2 seconds to the sound to give back, in short things like "Bing "He swallowed it whole, in the second phase, it will shut off completely .. no idea why.
If you spend movies and music it works very well, but as output for the PC in normal use it is not suitable. Networking between PC, TV, player and sound is not yet mature. The only good thing when switching between PC and player automatically adjusts the sound input to the correct input channel.

As a quasi sworn Philipsfan from MP3 players to the light-clock, this time I have the Ersta times a kind of "cheap Klumpat" feeling.

Original too expensive Rank: 5/5
July 4
Thrilling! 10 Rank: 5/5
June 21
It burns! 2 Rank: 1/5
March 27
Quality device 1 Rank: 5/5
September 17

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