Home > Consumer Reviews > Panasonic SC-PT467EB - 5.1 ch - Wireless Home Cinema System - With Direct iPod Dock & 1080P Up-Conversion - Black

This is a great bit of kit, provides excellent home cinema sound at a good budget, the upscaling of the dvd works fine, ipod, radio, etc. lots to offer. On the downside I purchased this for wireless rear speakers & although they are not wired to the dvd player they are wired to the extra transmitor box. This would be fine as it saves you running the cables round half the room BUT the wire length from the transmitor just isn't long enough (& nor is the power cable long enough to the transmitor). Because of this you have no flexibility in positioning the speakers, this is my big problem with the system. For me the wire length means I can't put my rear speakers high up or even half way up, on either side of the rear wall! It's very dissapointing, I just can't position the rear speakers where I want them so now I only plug them in and leave them on the floor when I specificaly want to watch a movie! If Pansonic had provided longer wires to the rear speaker (or made them actually wireless)I would have given this a 5 star as it is a excellent home cinema, but they didn't so I give it just a 3 star rating. (PS. You'll also need to purchase additional HDMI & audio cables to make the most of the system).

What a differance it is watching a movie with surround sound and some deep bass.I found this unit easy to setup, I had it up and running in 15 mins. The sound quality is good and the up grade picture quality is also good.
The rear wireless speakers work well, I have a 26Ft (8m) living room and it works great over this distance.
The cables on the speakers could do to have been longer, but every system I looked at had cables of a similar length.
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This is a super sound system. The wireless rear speakers are great but please note that they are connected to each other and to the receiving box by cable, only the link to the main unit is wifi.
The speakers can be awkward to place, as they don't have any stands, but in all other respects this is a fantastic sound system.

I've had this system for a few weeks now and have given most of it's features a good run through - although I've yet to use the FM radio other than to tune it. My set-up is a Panasonic TH-37PX80 Plasma TV and a Sony PS3. I really have little to add about the quality of the sound that hasn't already been mention. Apparently you can upgrade this system to 7.1 by buying an additional wireless set - good luck finding anywhere that sells it though! While I certainly don't regret buying this system, (especially given I got it at a significantly discounted price) there are a lot of issues I would have like to have been aware of in advance:

Wireless speakers: As others have mentioned, the rear speakers connect to a wireless unit rather than being individually wireless. This unit is about 6 inches square, (pretty bulky considering) it's made of a rather cheap feeling plastic and can get very hot. Be careful not to have the speaker wires too close to/touching the power cable or you may occasionally notice it picks up a rapid ticking noise at low volumes. Another issue with the wireless is it operates across 3 channels over a frequency range of 2.4-2.4835GHz - which regularly causes conflicts with the wireless connection on my laptop.

iPod: I hope, when you bought your iPod you kept the dock-adaptor insert that came with it, or you don't already have an iPod dock which currently uses it, as Panasonic hasn't included one. On plugging your iPod into the dock, the Reciever takes over, 'Panasonic' appears on the iPod screen and the click wheel is disabled. This means you have to navigate it on-screen, which would be great if the interface was anything like iTunes. It isn't. It only displays 8 artist/album/track names on screen at a time - meaning by way of an example I have to slowly trawl (there's a slight response lag) through 108 'pages' of artists. Tiresome to say the least.

Viera Link: This proves to be more of an irritant than any practical use if like me, the only other piece of Viera equipment you have is the TV. Turning the TV on will occasionally cause the Receiver to turn itself on a few seconds later and switching the TV to the Receiver's assigned AV input. This auto-switching function is common with most AV units of course, except they don't turn usually themselves on.

Remote: The number of functions massively out-strip the number of buttons available on the remote. With the bulk of the 'settings' assigned to the bottom 8 buttons, meaning you just have to memorise what they all do as they didn't have space to write them all on.

Main Reciever Unit: Some cosmetic issues; the front is split into 3 sections, each of which is made from a slightly different type of plastic. The DVD tray is a thin sliver of really cheap feeling plastic, it doesn't have any substance to it. Both points are quite disappointing given the price.

There were 3 main reasons for me buying this system. 1. Wireless rear speakers. 2. Integrated iPod connectivity. 3. Viera link. All three of which have proved to be a disappointment to one degree or another. Overall it's a genuinely quality piece of kit severely let down by a seemingly rushed design phase.

This product sounds excellent for the money. It's really easy to set up and only took around 15-20 minutes. The bass is more than adequate for a 3 bedroom semi detached house. Anything more and you simply would not use it. It would even be fine for a much larger house.

There are a few negatives for me which is why I only gave it four stars!
1-The back wireless speaker wires are simply not long enough. They are very limited. 2-I bought this system because I have an Ipod Touch. The ipod sounds great but when your playing your music the album artwork does not show on the ipod! You get a white screen. It's a real shame. 3-You do seem to get some feedback through the wireless speakers as well, it does seem to go after a while.

Overall you will not be disapointed with this system.