Great Sound W/ a couple negatives | Denon S-301 DVD Home Entertainment System

Bang for the buck | Denon S-301 DVD Home Entertainment System

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Here's the story with the Denon S-301

I bought this home theater system from Crutchfield--not Amazon (because although Amazon is my overall favorite online store, the bad experience I had with a television purchase has made me vow to never buy another big-ticket item from Amazon ever again). Nevertheless, here's the deal with the video problem associated with the Denon S-301. According the Crutchfield tech support, any unit manufactured prior to June, 2006 will have a chance of producing the video error. The error I speak of is the random dropping of the video signal when viewing a DVD movie while connected to your television via HDMI. It took me a total of three returns before I found this out, but fortunately, Crutchfield picked up the tab all three times. Whether Amazon will do this for their customers, I do not know.

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Great Sound W/ a couple negatives

My wife and I very much enjoy the sound this unit produces. Unfortunately the unit I received has the same problem experienced in other reviews. The video signal is lost momentarily and then returns. Very annoying! Also the 'HELP' function on the remote that initiates the on screen set up display, stopped functioning. Could not scroll up and down through the menus. Sending the unit back to Amazon. I have ordered the Sony DAV-X1. This unit has received more favorable reviews, and purchased for a lot less money.

Bang for the buck

I have researched home theater systems online for a long time before I rested at Denon 301.
Had a lot of reasons to choose it over Bose. Bose though sounds better in 5.1 system, but Denon beats the sound effects in 2.1 system. Overall the sound quality is crisp. Some improvements could have been a side hook up for the iPod for better asthetic looks, having a wire poping out right from the front of an otherwise fantastic looking machine is something i would not like to do. IPod synchronization was a breez.
Set up was a breez. Another thing lacking, or atleast i could not find was, spare parts for this model, e.g. extra or longer speaker wire. The unique/patented wiring for speaker connection is a negative as well, which means in future i cannot use any other speakers except denon.
I think its good bang for the buck, specially at a price that was offered by amazon at $ 999.

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BEWARE if buying for IPOD INTERFACE

One of the main reasons for buying this system was for the IPod interface, which generally got quite positive reviews. However, when I hooked up my new 80GB IPod (40% full), I found the scrolling speed impossibly slow! Not just bothersome slow, but UNUSABLE slow.

So, if you plan on using this with the Ipod interface, and have visions of scrolling though a long list of artists while watching the Ipod display on your TV, beware. I spoke to Denon US, and they were aware of the problem. However, they say they have no solution and are not aware of any fixes coming out any time soon. In fact, the tech. I spoke to blames the problem on Apple. If so, any fix may be a long time coming, if ever.

Since Apple's scrolling feature is MUCH faster (especially the latest software version), I guess I will have to resort back to my old Apple dock and lose the TV/Denon interface.

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