The magic of Blu-ray brings the vividness of the big screen to your living room. 7.1- channel speaker systems surround you with the full-range of sound, from the quietest whisper to the loudest bang of an explosion. When the doorbell or phone rings, a dog barks, or a cat meows, you'll think for a moment that it's for real while it's actually happening onscreen.
Nowadays, the phrase "Now playing in a theater near you!" can mean the short distance from your bedroom to your living room/entertainment area. Or it can mean the even shorter distance from your couch to your home theater set-up. If you think about it, there's no distance at all. You don't even have to get up from the couch to turn on your HDTV and Blu-ray player. You can do it all from the integrated remote control right beside you!
The latest Home-Theater-in-Box setup by Panasonic has its own Blu-ray player, AV receiver, iPod dock, and full 7.1-channel speaker system assembly. Three of its most popular models are the SC BT-200, SC BT-300, and SC BT-303. Each model has two important audiovisual features that you rarely see in stand-alone Blu-ray players or mid- to high-end HTiB systems. Visually, you get a high precision 4:4:4 color output and 1080/24p Playback for Blu-ray Discs and DVDs. Sound-wise, these are among the few HTIBs at this price range to include automatic speaker calibration. The VIERA Cast technology allows you to connect to the internet to access online content such as Amazon on Demand and Youtube streaming.
The SC BT-200 is capable of 1000 watts of power output. The SC BT-300 has a higher level of power output at 1250 watts.
The SC BT-303 is similar to the SC BT-300 except that the SC BT-303 uses a new image processing technology developed by Panasonic called the PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus. This processes color data to deliver images at twice the accuracy of conventional systems, so that images look as close to natural as possible. In addition, the Pixel Precision Progressive Processing - or 4PHD, for short - processes more than 15 billion pixels per second which allows superb rendering of progressive images. This results in the seamless transition of movements onscreen.
All this talk has put me in the mood for viewing Avatar on Blu-ray. Now where did I put down that remote?
