Bose quality is not in question....
They build a solid little product and give great customer service.
Which they SHOULD since their products are grossly, GROSSLY (I just can't stress this hard enough) over-priced.
That's one reason I went with the Bose 3-2-1, it's an all in one (radio/cd/dvd with hookups for VCR, Satellite and TV) that takes up very little space and puts a good sound in my small listening area.
I was glad to see that, 5 years after everybody else, Bose finally got into the 21st century by coming out with a DVD based product.
That is until I went to hook one up.
Arrrghhh...just ONE S-Video input!
Might as well not have ANY.
Five years to think about it...and they STILL screw the pooch!
What is your recommendation for something in a home theater system that won't take up half the room for its components?
I put one of these in the other day and was really impressed.
It has a built-in progressive DVD/CD player with Component out and S-Video inputs/outputs.
The Sub is powered by the built-in amp, but there is a standard sub woofer pre-out that will allow you to upgrade at a later time.
It retails for $1299 and absolutely blows the doors off of the $3000 Bose Life Style.
Yeah, but since I don't have anything with S-Video, and by the time I can afford it, I'll have the Bose relegated to the bedroom, it won't matter.
My dad recently went off the deep end and updated everything he had (kinda like buying a Formula One racer and not even having a learner's permit). He had satellite and a VCR with regular TV. Went and bought a DVD player, a new Sony surround sound processor, a Mitsubishi HDTV with integrated digital tuner, kept the satellite, and VCR...Paid an extra $50 to have the store's "Pro" come out and hook it up.
Three hours of my "will work for Pizza and Diet Coke" time later, we undid the "Pro's" screw-ups and got it running...it would have been less time for me, but I was unfamiliar with the whole concept of everything running through the TV and didn't get to the instruction manual until about half-way through the third hour (I hate manuals, they read like stereo instructions ;-)).