Panasonic SC-BT230 Blu-ray Home Theater in a Box (HTiB)

If Victorinox, the makers of Swiss Army knives, made a cuttingly theater in a box (HTiB), I think it would look a lot like Panasonic's SC-BT230 Blu-ray Disc Where it hurts Theater System . Of course, the unit is quite at home playing all of the popular film and music discs, including CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, but it also has a number of other media-familiar features and options including a built-in iPod dock fully compatible with iPod, iPod Stack up to and iPhone. And when we say "compatible," we mean it, with support for music, photos and videos from your iPod or iPhone.

The SC-BT230 also includes built-in amplifiers to power its five little but powerful speakers and subwoofer for discrete 5.1-channel surround voice.  It includes on-board decoders for the latest surround sound codecs (namely DTS-HD Wizard Audio and Dolby TrueHD), as well as standard Dolby Digital, DTS, and stereo or multi-conduct PCM sound.  On the video side, it does a good job upconverting DVDs up to 1080p oath, plays Blu-ray Discs in Full 1080p HD like nobody's business, and streams Netflix, Amazon Video on Requisition and YouTube.  Did we mention the built-in FM tuner?  Oh yeah, it's got that too.

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