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- Blu-ray Disc™ player matching design A/V receiver
- Optimized for Blu-ray Disc™ w/ 8 Ch LPCM
- 1080p HDMI™ Active Intelligence (3 in/1 out)
- Accepts 1080p signal & Linear PCM via HDMI™
- Digital Cinema Auto Calibration (mic included)
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Product Description:
The Sony HT-SS2300 home theater system offers everything you need to set up a Blu-ray Disc™ Theater (Blu-ray Disc™ Player sold separately). A slim receiver design offers great styling for your home theater while giving you the performance you’d expect from a Sony System. This system includes a 5.1 A/V receiver with 1000 watts (RMS) and HDMI™ Active Intelligence complemented with DIGITAL MEDIA PORT interface, so regardless of where you store your music, it offers an access point and provides control for one of Sony’s DIGITAL MEDIA PORT accessories (except TDM-BT1; accessories sold separately). In addition, the Portable Audio Enhancer integrates portable music into a traditional home theater system while providing enhanced audio quality. The A/V receiver’s HDMI interface transmits both audio and video while offering 1080p and full bandwidth sound tracks (LPCM) support through a single cable. Finally, The HT-SS2300 can also control a select number of BRAVIA® televisions with BRAVIA® Sync via HDMI™. With “One Touch Play,” operations that took several steps have been reduced to one. | | | | |
Average Rating : 
Rating :  - Great Deal For The Money!
I purchased this system at an online auction site, and have it hooked in with my Toshiba 40RV52R HDTV and an original model CECHA01 PS3, and absolutely love it. Setup of the system itself was a breeze, thanks to the microphone. There's plenty of wire provided for the speakers, connecting them to the receiver is simple, and using the included microphone to level out the volume is easy.
The sound quality is amazing as far as I'm concerned. I have the system set up in a smaller area, so there's more than enough power for my needs, and I'm convinced it would perform well in a larger room, too.
There are ton of options and sound settings--for someone like me, who tech savvy, but not sound savvy, it's a bit overwhelming, but a good look at the manual can help you arrive at a basic setup, at least. For those who know their way around home theater systems and their setup, I'm sure you can achieve exactly what you want.
EDIT: When I first reviewed this product, I mentioned a problem with the display of PS2 games playing through the backwards compatible PS3. The audio and video of PS2 games (and those only--not PS3 games, BDs, or DVDs), would cut in and out, making it impossible to play the games. I had to set the PS3 up to run audio through an optical cable and route the video directly to my HDTV via HDMI to play a PS2 game, rather than being able to just leave audio and video running via HDMI through the HT-SS2300.
I tried different HDMI cables, different settings in the PS3 and the HT-SS2300, contacted Playstation technical support, and even progressed to the highest level of Sony technical support in regards to the HT-SS2300, without getting a solution. Having to have two different setups (one for PS2 titles, one for PS3 Titles, DVDs, & BDs,) was bearable, but still a pain in the neck, and I gave the system a four-star rating as a result, with this problem being the only flaw I saw.
Tonight, I finally found someone online who has this Home Theater system and the same model of PS3 as me, and decided to send them an e-mail to see if they experienced this same problem, and to try and get a solution. I decided to pop in a PS2 disc to replicate the issue once again, so that I could give a full, accurate description of it in my message (I hadn't tried this for awhile).
Inexplicably, PS2 titles are now running absolutely perfectly via HDMI through the HT-SS2300. I have absolutely no clue what caused the correction. I don't recall having done anything with the home theater system itself in recent months, and I haven't adjusted any settings in the PS3, either. All I can figure is that either something snapped itself into place in the inner workings of this thing, or perhaps it was a PS3 issue all along that was resolved through a recent firmware update. In any event, now that this is working, I can enthusiastically give this system a five-star rating!
This system is perfect for my needs. It's easy to set up, provides clear audio and video, and is powerful when handling music or audio accompanying TV or a movie. Great bang for the buck! I definitely recommend it.
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