Panasonic SC-HT80 5-DVD Home Theater System

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5/5      Total Reviews: 13

Rating: 4
HT80 good, not great

Back in 2000, I purchased this system to be my all-in-one home theater. While $700 can now get you much, much more, this was a great system for me. Speakers are not overly powerful, but they are extremely easy to set up and run, good sound quality, and stylish. I have had it for almost 6 years and only complaint is a crappy DVD lense (reader). Some disks are stubborn, but still play. I typically troubleshooted by re-loading DVD until it would read. Then, I got smart and purchased a scotch DVD cleaner from BestBuy, which greatly helped.

Rating: 1
Stay away from Panasonic!

Customer Service - the Panasonic website claims this is very important to them. I had my home theater only 3-4 months when a VCR tape got stuck. I has now been at the service center for almost 4 months! When I am lucky enough to get a response from Panasonic (which is rare), they make promises of completion and/or replacement. But promises won't play the DVD's my family would have liked to watch together over the holidays. When we finally got through to the customer service center on the phone, they had the nerve to hand up on us twice. IF YOU WANT A COMPANY TO STAND BEHIND THEIR PRODUCTS - STAY AWAY FROM PANASONIC!!! I have truly given up hope of even getting my home theater back from the Panasonic service center.

Rating: 1
Do not buy

Ok, the sound was good. Until a couple of weeks ago, that is. The latest CDs I bought will not play decently. The music is interrupted every couple of minutes by sounds that make you wonder if there is a record player inside (it sure is large enough...). Panasonic are saying I can have it repaired, which will cost me at least 40 dollars. Just about the price of a low end dvd player. You know, one of those systems that will play mp3, dvd, cd, cdr and cdrw instead of only dvds, like this Panasonic thing. Based on my experience and some of the other reviews it would seem Panasonic equipment lasts about 2 years. Hmmm.

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