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JVC Sophisti DD-3 - home theater system |
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The left and right speakers are two-way designs, featuring a 3.75x0.44-inch direct drive driver (which JVC claims delivers a wider sound field) as well as a 0.81-inch dome tweeter. The center speaker features the same direct drive speaker, and the subwoofer is armed with a 6.31-inch cone--somewhat small, even by HTIB standards.
The DD-3 has a built-in DVD player and is equipped with the standard Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II, and DTS surround decoding options, although it cannot reproduce true Dolby Digital and DTS soundtracks without six discrete speakers. Instead, the DD-3 creates an approximation of a surround sound field from the available four channels (including the subwoofer). There are three different sound processing modes the DD-3 uses: Movie/M.Music for movies and multichannel music, Wide/2chMusic to widen the soundstage on two channel music, and Super Wide to create an even wider soundstage.
In addition to DVDs, the DD-3 can play DivX, MP3, and WMA files on DVDs and CDs. There's no support for SACD discs like on the competing DAV-X1V, although we'd argue that the benefits from high-resolution music discs would be difficult to detect on a system like this.
Connectivity is minimal, even for an HTIB. The highlight of the jack pack is the HDMI output, which is capable of upconverting DVDs to 720p resolution. Otherwise, the system includes the standard DVD player analog video outputs (component video, S-Video, and composite video). For audio output, the HDMI jack can be used (it carries both audio and video), but there's also an optical digital audio output. Of course, since the system has its own speakers, you'll probably use them instead.
The real omission is the bare-bones support for AV inputs. There are three audio inputs (one stereo analog input, one optical digital audio input and--on the front panel--a minijack input) but there are no video inputs. That means you won't be able to do any video switching to integrate any external equipment--say a cable or satellite box, or a game system. Of course, you can run the audio to the DD-3 and the video to the TV, but that involves a lot of remote fumbling or buying a good universal remote. For comparison, the stylish Sony DAV-X1V 2.1 HTIB has two AV inputs with S-Video and we've seen it going for as low as $600 online (although it has some video switching issues too).
Like every other HTIB, the DD-3 includes an AM/FM tuner along with the ability to save 30 FM presets and 15 AM presets. There's no support for satellite radio or HD radio.
You'll also note there's an Ethernet port on the back, which is used for the network media playing functionality of the DD-3. The DD-3 is basic as a network player, offering support for LPCM, WAV, MP3, and WMA audio file types. For video files, it can play ASF, DivX, MPEG1, and MPEG2 files--while photo support is limited to just JPEG files. That certainly doesn't stack up to the best standalone network media players, but for basic streaming it should get the job done. We were disappointed to find that it couldn't play non-DRM 256kpbs AAC files purchased from the iTunes store.
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