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Can I just buy a home theater console/DVD/other player?

  • The sound out of my console has been a little sketchy lately, and then the other night, I discovered the DVD player has stopped working. I know repairing it might be a lot of money. I was wondering if I could just buy a console with a DVD/Blue-Ray player and maybe with some of the upgrade features, but not have to get speakers with them. The ones I have with my current system are great; it seems like a waste to have to buy an entire system. What do people think?

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    No. Those $199 cheap systems are DVD players with attached speakers. They are all-in-one systems that must be tossed when any part breaks. You will over-heat and destroy a nice $900 AV Receiver if you hook the speakers from a box system to it. The speakers are often something like 3 ohms to generate inflated power numbers. It was a waste to buy a DVD player with cheap attached speakers in the first place when for a bit more you could have bought a more standard AV Receiver, sub and speakers for about $380. These systems let you hook up or swap out a DVD to HD-DVD to BluRay, cable, sat, etc. Go to Amazon and search for Onkyo Home Theater. You will find budget but decent systems at a variety of price ranges.

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This is what happens all too often when people cheap out and buy a crappy HTIB system. One, the speakers in them are almost always awful. Plus, a lot of them have brand specific speaker connectors, so you CANNOT use them with a different control unit. Plus, no one sells just the control units without the speakers, anyway. Frankly, your best bet is to junk the whole thing and get on the Internet FAST to buy some proper gear. Today, and it might just be today only, you can get a Pioneer 521K HT audio receiver for $140, free shipping. Add in a speaker set such as the Polk 6750 for $215, add in a few connecting cables (16 gauge speaker wire, a subwoofer cable, a couple of HDMI cables and a digital audio cable), and the new disc player, and you'll be all set, with far better sound, reliability and connectivity than any cheap HTIB junk can offer. In a player, get at least an upconverting DVD player. They can be had for $50 or even less. Any Bluray player is also automatically an upconverting VD player, and the least expensive can be had for under a hundred.

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