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this is a great product. It was easy to set up, planty of cable and it looks brand new but is a refurbished sysem. I have no complaints.

I purchased this Item refurbished, and I am happy to say that I was very satisfied. To me it seems completely new, and runs great. No missing components or paper work. The system plays great, easy set up, and quick start up.

The speakers are good, and I was surprised by power of the sub. You can play music and movies from your iPod, along with viewing photos. They only thing is that you can't watch the movie through the HDMI output, only AV. Don't forget to set your iPod's movie setting output to TV, othewise you might not be able to see the movie from your iPod on your TV.

You don't have much option to manually control all aspects of sounds, but it does have good pre-sets. The wire length for the speakers are long enough to set up the surround speakers in a small room, but bigger rooms might require some additional length by splicing. I wasn't able to fully plug in the FM wire to its hub, so I used a little bit of electrical tape to keep it in place.

Overall, if your looking for something good to play your music and movies and don't want to worry about fine-toning everything, than this is a great buy. I am very happy with the purchase and I really enjoy my media now.

I bought this refurb thru Amazon from Good As New Electronics.
Happy with price and service from GANE.
Unit works great and makes TV listening much better for my old ears.
Everything has worked great for a month until a few days ago, when the Viera link stopped fully working. After a couple of hours on the phone with tech service at Panasonic, reseting both the TV and HT a few times, it turned out to be the HDMI cable which had worked fine until now. Fortunately I had a couple of extras. One of three fit tighter than the other two--and worked again. All three HDMI cables were from eForcity, so go figure.
The cables for the rear surround were too short and I needed another 15 feet--what a stupid design! I did figure out how to open the speakers which have terminal lugs inside, and the pins in the molex connectors going into the main unit can be removed. but I opted to just cut the wires to the rear surround speakers and add 18 feet of 22awg speaker wire using common butt splices--works great. I don't think I would have liked the wireless version because of the additional pwoere requirement and potential interference problems.
I think the unit is well worth the price as a refurb, but gave it a 4 because of the rear speaker wire length (25') and lack of paint on one side of the subwoofer. I think more inputs like digital coax would be nice too.
I have not had any problems with the DVD player mechanism, but I do treat it with care because it seems a bit complex and delicate, but okay if you pay attention.

I use the Panny SC-PT660 in my family room. Good features, sound, and easy to setup. Movies, TV and SAT radio for family - not heavy duty use. Works great with my Panny Viera Plasma. One issue, I failed to notice that the speakers have custome "clip-in" connections to the receiver and the speakers are "pre-wired". My family room is pre-wired with standard speaker wires run behind the walls and ceiling. Had to splice the Panny wires for the rear surround sound speakers. I expected the speakers to accept the bare ends of the pre-run speaker wires.

Wonderful, worked just as expected, easy to hook up. Only wish I had gone wireless.