Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15930 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Panasonic
• Model: SC-BT100EB-K
• Released on: 2008-07-14

Manufacturer's Description
Blu-ray Disc Home Cinema Sound System. The SC-BT100 is compatible with the newest Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD 7.1-channel surround sound formats. Sit back and enjoy the incredibly rich, clear and faithful surround sound these high-data formats make possible.

Panasonic has provided the SC-BT100 with special audio technologies that complement the superb quality of its Blu-ray Disc images. The Bamboo Diaphragm Speaker, which was developed by an extensive study of speaker cone materials, achieves high sound quality. The Kelton Subwoofer produces rich, robust bass tones to match the large-screen, high-resolution images. And by aligning the two woofers directly above and below the tweeter, the Vertical Symmetrical Configuration Speaker achieves sharp, clear sounds.

The SC-BT100 provides 1080/24p output. It reproduces movie images from a Blu-ray Disc in their original 24p form, with no need for conversion. You see movies in the same format used in movie cinemas.

The SC-BT100's HDMI output is Deep Colour compatible. While the earlier HDMI V.1.2 offers 8-bit, 256-step gradation, HDMI V.1.3 bumps it all the way up to 12-bit, 4,096-step gradation. This helps the SC-BT100 reproduce natural looking colours with smooth gradation and minimal colour banding.

When playing a BD-Video or DVD disc, the P4HD up-converts content recorded in the 480i/p, or 720p format to 1080p with Precise Pixel Generation that generates each pixel from 60 surrounding pixels of information. You enjoy superb 1080p-level image quality.

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Customer Reviews

Superb picture and sound, buy one!
I got this to replace my old home cinema system as I wanted to go Blu-ray.
Having looked at the Blu-ray home cinema options I narrowed the meagre choice down to this and have so far been pleased with my choice.

Blu-ray discs look stunning with the sound quality also being excellent.
DVD's also look and sound god with the upscaling appearing to give good results.

The sound has many options allowing you to customise the setup for your own room shape and configuration. It takes a bit of fiddling about but its worth it.

The iPod dock works well, with music being handled well and sounding good.
My only gripe is that the iPod video is not played throug the HDMI lead and a seperate video lead (supplied) must be connnected.
If video was through the HDMI then it would have got 5 stars for sure.

Having watched the recent Transformers movie on DVD and then Blu-ray I can say the difference is superb with the Blu-ray picture really standing out as sharp and bright even almost crystal clear if that is not overstating things!

I am very happy with my first foray into Blu-ray and am looking forward to watching some of my favourite films again as finaces allow me to get the Blu-ray versions.
So if you want Blu-ray and home cinema then this kit is for you.
(get the extra wireless rear speaker kit, its worth it!)

Great unit
Purchased this unit last week but there was a whine coming from all three speakers which was very annoying. Got the unit exchanged at the weekend and was able to fully try it out. Thankfully this unit did not have the same fault and both the picture and sound quality is excellent. I read a few reviews about it and there was a lot of talk about the sound quality being poor, i found the sound quality as good if not better than my yamaha sound system that it replaced.
Good points - Fantastic sound, Fantastic HD picture, Easy to operate, Looks great.
Bad points - comes only as a 3.1 you have to buy the rear speakers and amp seperatly. it has got the wired output but you have to have a seperate amp if you use this.
Has not got seperate bass and treble controls you have to use the preset settings but these seem okay.
I would recommend this unit.

Fantastic product.
Well what can i say. Another fantastic product from Panasonic. When playing a blu ray feature the picture and sound quality on this machine is amazing. I purchased the 3.1 system and i have no intentions of buying the extra wireless speakers as i feel there is no need to as the sound produced is very loud and crisp. The dts hd and true hd sound is out of this world. Awesome product.