Product Description

Indulge yourself in superior sound and image quality with the DAV-DZ280 HDMI BRAVIA Theater System Watch your favorite movies or listen to music with enhanced sound quality thanks to the 24-bit S-master digital amplifier, and Digital Cinema Auto Calibration (DCAC) technology This automatically adjusts for speaker placement, distance and delay Boasting 850W power, HDMI output with 1080p upconversion, and a supplied iPod cradle to playback music and video content from your iPod, the DAV-DZ280 ensures an amazing home audio-video experience at the touch of your fingertips

Product Description   Sony DAV DZ280 - home theatre system - 5.1 channel     Product Type   Home theatre system     Components   DVD player / AV receiver, speaker system     Enclosure Colour

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2025 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Sony
• Model: DAVDZ280.CEK
• Released on: 2009-03-02
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 33.07 pounds

Features

• DVD features:.
• Black.
• Dolby Pro Logic 2/Dolby Digital/DTS sound system.
• 5.1 channels.
• Supports region 2.

Manufacturer's Description
With Sony's Sony DAVDZ280 5.1 ch DVD Home Cinema System you can get stunning Sony sound quality from your iPod® or iPhone™ with the included iPod®/iPhone™ dock. You can also hook into Sony's online music store to find your favourite tunes. This system pumps out a total of 850 Watts of room-filling sound from a central speaker, 4 satellite units and a 160mm ultra-compact subwoofer. You will be able to hear your movies come to life with Dolby® Digital, Dolby® Prologic II and DTS Decoding.

S-Master
S-Master digital amplifier delivers crystal clear sound for playback faithful to the original source (S-Master Digital Amplifier). Developed to achieve the best results from high-quality digital audio sources such as Super Audio CD and DVD sources, S-Master (Full Digital Amplifier) technology transmits audio to your speakers in one simple, yet highly sophisticated digital process. S-Master technology offers a highly efficient power delivery with accurate imaging high resolution and stable performance. Most Sony home cinema systems feature S-Master Digital Amplifier technology. On some very top models you can have S-Master Pro for the best audio quality possible.

Upscaling
A built-in upscaler generates a 1080p signal via HDMI™ cable for superb picture quality on your High Definition TV.

BRAVIA Sync
BRAVIA Sync lets you sit back and control other devices by Sony, like a Handycam® camcorder or Blu-ray Disc™ player, using your BRAVIA TV remote control. Another brilliantly simple way to get more out of Sony products. For example, if your Blu-ray Disc™ player is connected to your BRAVIA TV via HDMI™, you can watch a movie simply by pressing play on your BRAVIA remote. Or if you connect your Cyber-shot digital camera to your BRAVIA TV via HDMI™ you can use the TV remote to view the movies and pictures stored on the device.

DCAC
(Digital Cinema Auto Calibration) An intelligent Sony technology that offers simple and accurate automatic set-up of your home cinema system. No matter what the size or shape of your room, DCAC eliminates the guesswork when you position your speakers. The result is optimum surround sound performance for both movies and music. This user-friendly feature uses a microphone to accurately measure speaker distance, volume and frequency etc. It can also automatically compensate for the acoustic character of your room if so desired. Most Sony receivers and home cinema systems feature DCAC.

Digital Media Port
Connect to and release digital music stored on your WALKMAN®, iPod® or other mp3 players, mobile phones, Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi devices.

Portable Audio Enhancer
The Portable Audio Enhancer function improves the sound quality of compressed music such as mp3

Portable Audio EnhancerX
Portable Audio Enhancer Music converted to MP3 loses quality. Portable Audio Enhancer compensates for this by boosting the audio frequencies to bring the sound back closer to the original source levels, ensuring better quality with Network WALKMAN® devices and any other portable audio player.

Direct Ripping
The Sony DAVDZ280 allows you to rip CDs directly to your USB device, WALKMAN® or WALKMAN® phone.

Dialogue Enhancer
The Dialogue Enhancer keeps speech clear while limiting the volume of sudden sound effects – ideal for late night viewing

Radio
The DAVDZ280 has a built-in FM radio tuner with RDS and 30 station presets

RDS
Radio Data System, is a technology that allows to transmit additional useful information to a tuner or receiver. This Information can be: the station name, an outline of the current programme and/or the current time. RDS is only available on the FM waveband.

CODEC
(Coder – Decoder) This is the term given to audio compression systems. Codec systems work out the sounds we can and cannot hear, and then save only the information that is audible. This can be done in a number of ways. One way is not recording sounds that fall outside our range of hearing. Another is to remove any sounds that are masked by other, louder sounds. Alternatively, Codecs can concentrate solely on frequencies that our ears are most sensitive to. This software can reduce or compress data so that it takes up less storage space, and then restore it for playback. Examples of Codec systems are MP3, WMA and ATRAC3.

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Customer Reviews

Great sound but limited connectivity
I recently purchased a DAVDZ280 home cinema system and although I found the same connectivity issues as have been pointed out by other reviewers, I was able to work around them - and I am now very happy with the system.

The initial problem was getting surround sound from my Sky+ box. When I connected the home cinema to the TV via scart I was only getting the sound from the terrestrial channels. To get round that I had to connect the scart cable from the output of the Sky box to the home cinema instead of from the TV. This solved the problem and I could watch TV through Sky with full surround sound. This did mean I did not get surround sound when watching the terrestrial channels directly on the TV, but as they are all available on Sky this was not an issue.

The bigger problem was that because I was connecting to the home cinema from the Sky box, I could not play DVDs on the home cinema system. The only way I was able to get round this was to get a Scart Switch connected to the home cinema, with one cable going to the TV and one to the Sky box. This solved the problem and I now have all the functions I want.

It was a bit disappointing to have to fork out more money for these additional items (the scart switch and another cable), even though they were very cheap (<£20 in total) and I don't see why a second scart socket could not have been added to the home cinema system - not to mention connection for digital sound output which would give much better connectivity without adding much to the cost of the item.

Having said that - now that I am connected up that way I want, the sound quality is excellent, it looks great, and I love the added extras of being able to connect my ipod and mp3!

UPDATE: Quite by accident, I have discovered that my original problem of getting sound only from the terrestrial channels could be solved by swapping the sockets that the 2 scart cables were connecting to the on TV i.e. Home Cinema connecting to TV scart socket 1 and Sky connecting to TV scart socket 2 instead of the other way round). I now have the Sky box connected to the TV and the Home Cinema connected to the TV and get surround sound from whichever TV station I am watching (Sky or Terrestrial) as well as being able to watch DVDs through the Home Cinema. This means I now have no need of the Scart Switch and the additional cable, which I am sending back. Weird though - I thought the 2 scart sockets on the TV were interchangeable and it didn't matter which one each device was connected to - apparently not!

Mis named
Bought the Sony Bravia KDL40W5500U TV along with this as part of a package deal. Guess what. Doesn't work with the TV, and even better is NOT a Home Cinema System, its a DVD player with speakers that won't accept the TV as an input source!
Not sure who thought up the name, but should be shot

Sony should be shout it out - "No Optical!"
I bought this assuming it was a modern player that would do all the normal digital things. But is has no optical input so there is no way I can play my games console through it. My TV receiver system can input sound to it via scart lead but is non digital. Why was this glaring deficit not clearly highlighted for the great majority of people who will want to play other inputs through the theatre?