| CrashMan said: I got a 1000 watt surround sound system with a DVD player with 1080 upscaling, DivX support, USB support, IPod Support, HDMI, etc, etc etc for under 300 dollars. Any one who pays more than 300 bucks for a DVD player alone is being had. |
Anyone who buys a 1000 watt stereo for under 300 bucks and really thinks its 1000 watts was seen coming from miles away. These "cheap" up-conversion DVD players are junk. They dont up-convert well at all. Stack that next to a DVDO upconversion unit and the difference will be very apparent. Those 300+ DVD players generally have very good scalers in them, and that is what you are paying for. The HD-DVD players have horrible scalers in them as well. DVDs look much better using a good up-conversion DVD player only.
As for the 1000 Watt amp.......It may be 1000 Watts Total power at Peak, but what most manufacturers do is combine the total output for each channel at PEAK. So 1000 Watts should equate to 142 watts per channel on a 7.1 channel amp. Since thats PEAK, the true power, or RMS power would be 100 Watts per channel. So yes in theory your amp is 1000 Watts, but it will only drive a 100 WATT speaker per channel. Generally the distortion rate on those 300$ amps is pretty bad as well. Generally .08% and higher. The really crappy ones are 1% THD and more. If you got one of those Units that are a Up-conversion DVD player AMP and speakers All in-one, than its even worse.
