Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #396 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Samsung
• Model: HT-TZ325R/XEU
• Released on: 2009-04-16

Manufacturer's Description
The HT-TZ325 offers an incredible 1000W of power through 5.1ch speaker set up with Full HD (1080p) upscaling for a truly unbelievable home cinema experience. With full Tallboy speaker configuration, this system will complement your living room perfectly. Add USB host, HDMI connectivity (with Anynet+) and Bluetooth and the HT-TZ325 offers great exceptional connectivity that will bring your movies and other digital media to life.

Anynet+(HDMI-CEC)
Anynet+ makes it far easier to control TV & connected devices. This feature enables consumers to operate their Samsung TV and supporting devise using only one remote thanks to the HDMI connection. Automatic mode switching is also supported.

1080p Video Up-scale
Standard DVD video resolution is 480i, however this can be up-scaled to near 1080p Full HD resolution with this Home Theatre System. When the HT-TZ325 is connected to an HD Ready TV via HDMI connection the picture quality of your standard DVD movies is vastly improved.

USB Host
You don't need to burn CDs or DVDs to enjoy music, video clips or photos on your home theatre system; just plug a portable digital device into the USB port for instant entertainment.

Power Bass
Power Bass allows you to get more out of your Home Theatre System. Through the enhanced signal your movies will sound better, placing you right in the heart of the action.

Bluetooth
Bluetooth enables you to connect devices to your home theatre system wirelessly. The HT-TZ325 comes equipped with Bluetooth functionality allowing it to connect wirelessly to compatible devices such as mobile phones or MP3 players to enjoy you multimedia connect quickly and easily.

Wireless Rear Speaker Ready
With optional wireless kit, this system can be a wireless rear speaker system. The optional SWA-4000 wireless kit comes with transmitter card and wireless receiver module. Just insert the card into the Home theatre centre unit, place wireless module on back of the room and connect with rear speakers. No longer do you need to run wires from the front set to the back speaker.

Customer Reviews

Smart and versatile
I bought this after my expensive Hifi broke, it does everything that did and more.

Although the surround sound scares my cat, the effect is brilliant in Dolby 5.1, and the bass has real oomph. Like the earlier reviewer, I found the speaker wire too short for the rear speakers, but it wasn't rocket science to join extra speaker wire on to extend the leads, and as there is no plug at the speaker end, this was no problem.

I love how verstaile the unit is, as well as Dolby for my TV, it plays my CDs, DVD's, gets FM radio, and i can even plug in a USB stick, with a couple of albums from my PC hard drive. I havent tried the Bluetooth yet, but I will.

Top Notch!
The unit is slick and stylish and looks the part. The sound quality was breath taking at times when I watched blu rays which exploded into life in my living room! As with the previous reviewer, the very small issue of the rear speaker cable length can be very easily remedied and doe not warrant giving the product less than 5 stars taking into account price and sound quality. Also, if you are connecting this to a blu ray player, ps3, sky box etc. then connect and optical cable directly to the unit to experience full 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. Then use phono leads to connect your TV to the unit because freeview only outputs in stereo and then adjust the setting to get sound out of all the speakers.

My new home theatre!
I had been promising myself a home cinema system for a while and always found myself coming back to this unit as I was particularly interested in the wireless rear speaker capabilities. After reading several quite favourable reviews I took the plunge and ordered in conjunction with the SWA4000 wireless unit. Excellent delivery, within 48 hrs.
Im no techie or electrical expert but I have to say that setting up the unit was really straightforward and the colour coding really helps. I found the wireless rear speaker set up an absolute doddle, having to do no more than plug the supplied card into the DVD receiver and power up the unit. I found the auto calibration feature to be superb and a real bonus.
Quality of the sound seems tip top to me, bear in mind I didnt have any prior systems so I guess its going to sound fab to me anyways. Only tiny issues I had was working out how to plumb all my gear together and I had to do a few searches on the web to assist so I think it would be good to explain here how I set mine up for the benefit of others.

Bear in mind my TV has 2 x HDMI ports, I had to purchase a splitter cable.

1. Samsung unit linked direct via HDMI to TV
2. SKY + HD Box linked via HDMI to splitter/TV + Optical lead to Samsung unit (Select D/IN)
3. XBOX 360 Linked via HDMI to splitter/TV + the official xbox audio cable convertor to Samsung (Select Aux2)

This set-up gives me great sounds and effects. Only hiccup I had was seemingly losing my rear speakers on sky and xbox until I read the instructions properly and realised I hadnt set the sound set up to MATRIX from the hand controller. Doh!

Overall, Im really, really impressed in terms of value for money. Maybe if your a Hi Fi afficiando then you would pick holes in the units performance but I guess if your expecting Ferrari Enzo performance from a Ford Fiesta then your being a bit daft.