If you’re looking for a quality
system with a sleek, modern look, consider a
Phillips home
theater
set-up.
Phillips’ products have good sound
and could even be
called beautiful. They come with an array of great features and in
several price ranges.
Several of Phillips’ products
feature a technology they call Ambisound. Ambisound creates a true
surround sound experience with fewer speakers than a traditional
surround sound system.
Room size and the position of the listener
become less important with Ambisound, and the listener gets a nice
immersion effect.
Another technology employed by Philips in
some of their home theater systems is HDMI – High Definition
Multimedia Interface. HDMI can carry both digital High Definition (HD)
video and digital multichannel audio.
This results in a pretty easy
user interface for AV hook-up, and it’s backward-compatible
with Digital Video Interface (DVI). 1080p HDMI systems deliver
crystal-clear pictures, allowing standard definition films to be viewed
in beautiful high definition.
Phillips, as a company, is quite dedicated
to protecting the environment, so they have hired external auditors to
test the efficiency of many of their products. Those products that are
found to be more than 10% more efficient than similar products on the
market are tagged with Phillips’ “green
logo.” Several of Phillips home theater products carry this
green logo.
In addition to safety for the environment,
Phillips is concerned with consumer safety. For example, they use flame
retardant materials on their televisions, which means that unlike some
traditional televisions, Phillips televisions will not intensify house
fires.
Some of Phillips’ home theater
systems have added features. These include iPod and Phillips GoGear
docks…allowing you to put your iPod directly into the system
to play music or view photos or video. Another neat feature is a USB
port, where you can plug in a USB memory “stick” to
listen to music or view photos.
Users tend to rate Phillips home theater
systems quite high. Consumers note that the sound is clear, and the set
up process is easy. They also rate the systems as having good value for
the price. These systems are available online and at most major
electronics retailers.