High-power surround package including 3-way bass-reflex floor-standing front speakers. Full-range center/surround speakers Features 3-way bass-reflex floor-standing front speakers with : 20cm cone woofer 8cm cone midrange 4cm dome tweeter Full-range. 8.3cm cone center and surround speakers Magnetically-shielded Maximum power.

• RMS 100W x 2 (front)
• 100W x 3 (center, surround)
• 50W x 2 (subwoofer)
• 5 functions (DVD/DECK/Tuner/USB/Line)
• DVD/SVCD/VCD/CD player
• Progressive Scan (PAL/NTSC)
• Built-in DTS/Dolby Digital Decoder
• Dolby Pro Logic II
• DivX Playback
• WMA (Windows Media Audio)
• MP3 Playback
• MPEG-4 AAC Playback
• Photo Viewer (JPEG Playback*)
• PHOTO + MUSIC MIX
• PLAYLIST for easy song selection
• GigaByte Music (DVD Data Disc Playback)
• Full Karaoke Functions
• TV Preset Remote Control
• FM/AM 30 Preset Stations
• Auto Reverse Cassette Deck
• Music Search
• 16cm + 5.2cm 2-way Front and Surround Speakers
• 7.7cm Center Speaker
• 16cm Twin Subwoofers
  *Fujicolor CDs and Kodak picture CDs can be played back.

For easy maintenance and CD tuner surprises, this thing is a good choice. It surely goes beyond just giving music. Pioneer has come up with a great product once again.It’s such a unique Cd turner that can easily be endeared to you. It has full color OEL (Organic Electro-Luminescent) display with 65,000 colors. It’s customizable, versatile, and it can really surprise you.Much more than a CD player, the DEH-P8850MP can bring your music to life - and in life-like color, too! The new Full-Color OEL display is the first thing that will catch your eye. But the beauty of this model goes deep, with outstanding sound quality features such as built-in DSP (Digital Signal Processor, enhances EEQ) and 16-Band Graphic EQ, and much more.Featuring a full-color dot-matrix OEL (Organic EL) display, this slick Pioneer head-unit is the latest in its line, offering built-in DSP, Multi-language display(English/Spanish/Portuguese) and a Burr Brown D/A Converter.

Soft launched recently, the new-generation DVR-645H-S and 745H-S represent the pinnacle of Pioneer’s DVR range. Besides sporting high-capacity hard drives, both recorders are also ahead of the pack with onboard HD-ready HDMI and USB connectivity. Read on as we test drive the 250GB 645H-S to bring you an indepth analysis of this promising recorder.Bright blue and red LEDs on the front signify whether you are in hard disk drive (HDD) or DVD mode, and will play back or record to the selected device. The 56-button remote is silver on the front and black on the back with large finger grooves.

Nothing in particular really stands out as striking in terms of the 645H’s design, which isn’t to say it’s an unattractive DVD recorder, just that Pioneer has focused more on its functionality than appearance. Weighing in at around 4.4kg and measuring 420 x 318 x 69mm, the 645H has been given a standard silver finish with a black horizontal stripe across the front. Underneath the stripe is a flip-down panel which gives access to two USB ports–type A and B–as well as DV, S-video, composite-video and stereo analog inputs. Pioneer strangely hides the playback controls behind this panel, too, but as the remote control gets used the majority of the time, we can understand their rationale to keep it out of sight.

At the back of the unit are the rest of the connections, which include HDMI, component-video and two sets of composite/S-video and stereo analog outputs. There are also a further two inputs at the back for recording from sources such as settop boxes. Unfortunately though, the 645H has no control over external devices so you’re stuck having to tediously program separate timers. A coaxial digital output is also here, but no optical audio.

Pioneer’s latest reiteration of its popular 1,090mm (43-inch) and 1,270mm (50-inch) plasma TVs have not changed all that much in looks; they’re still framed in black glass, a slick design that looks smart in most home theater environmentsBut inside, Pioneer’s 6th-generation plasma screens boast new technologies that improve picture-quality and reduce energy consumption. The Pioneer-dubbed “Pure Black” panels have been designed to improve the stability of color discharge from the plasma cells, which produces purer colors, particularly at the ends of the color spectrum with “blacker” blacks and “whiter” whites. The screens also include a Direct Color Filter that reduces light reflections from the outside of the panel (as well as from the panel itself) to improve contrast levels in bright environments.

Pioneer has also enhanced the PDP-506HDG’s video processing and digital noise reduction technologies. It is high definition-ready (HD) and handles both industry standard HD video formats (1080i and 720p) plus it now includes HDMI connectivity. On the audio side, Pioneer has added a subwoofer pre-out to TV sound for more bass.Nice as this panel is, you’re still going to have to fork out for a digital tuner–the Pioneer roadmap for an integrated console is still 18 months away.There’s always something bigger and better coming down the line in the flat screen TV world, and in Pioneer’s case, it’s a “true HD” 1,920 x 1,080 resolution screen. Pioneer’s first demonstration of this panel is set to be on show at the CES show in Las Vegas in January 2006.Pioneer concedes that smaller, lighter-weight LCDs may be the way to go for a secondary TV in bedrooms and kitchens, but maintains that the picture quality limitations of LCDs are exposed at larger screen sizes. Therefore, the company is sticking to its big-screen plasma guns, pouring all its research and development efforts into its large size plasmas, which they argue should be the centerpiece for a home’s main TV viewing area. The 6th-generation PDP-506HDG does produce a beautiful picture, so we tend to agree.

Last year, we reviewed Pioneer’s flagship HTZ535DVD wireless home theater system, well-rated for both its versatility and musicality. Interesting, this has been replaced by the latest HTZ656DVD which has apparently lost the former’s wireless and digital audio input capabilities. These are replaced by high-definition capability and HDMI connectivity aimed squarely at making the sound system a perfect complement of HDTVs.The HTZ656DVD is a traditional home-theater-in-a-box system comprising a DVD receiver unit combined with a set of wired 5.1 surround sound speakers. The former is a streamlined deck draped in silver-cum-black piano finish measuring a petite 420 x 60 x 330mm size. Its front panel has a minimalist appeal, thanks to a flushed DVD tray and well-integrated LCD display which is invisible when powered down.

You will also get four identical tall boy speakers, each outfitted with a single 26mm tweeter and twin 77mm woofers. Standing at a towering 1,096.5mm tall, these height-optimized black piano beauties offer provisions for both floor and wall-mounting. These options also apply to the 270mm-wide center speaker which houses a single 77mm woofer. Wrapping up the six-piece speaker ensemble is a floorstanding subwoofer powered by a 160mm floor-firing driver. The new bundled remote in the package is nothing close to the sleek concoction of its predecessor. In its place is a plastiky stick littered with buttons of all shapes and sizes. There is even a shift key to activate dual-function controls meant for setup and configuration. The saving grace here is the ergonomic form factor and tactile buttons which minimize user fatigue and wrist strains for prolonged usage.