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Best <$500 Pictured in the Amazon Carousel above▲ are our picks for the best HTIB systems currently on the market that are available for less than 500 hundred bucks. They range from "conventional" home theater in a box surround sound audio only systems (receiver + speakers) with audio/video inputs and switching, but without a disc player from Yamaha and Onkyo, to two integrated systems with built-in Blu-ray Disc player from Panasonic which lack A/V inputs and switching (so you'll have to use the inputs and remote from your HDTV to do all the input switching).
Anyone who doesn't want the worry of figuring out the best way to run speaker wires from the front to the back of the room to set up rear surround speakers..... |
.....should consider a 2.1 speaker virtual surround sound system, a 1.1 speaker soundbar + subwoofer system, or even a single ZVOX sound bar speaker that sits underneath your high definition television on top of (a shelf inside) your TV stand.
►If you are wanting a home theater system with multiple HDMI inputs and A/V switching that can handle both HD audio (Dolby True HD, DTS-HD Master Audio) and 1080p HD video signals (without the need to also connect the sound separately using a digital audio cable), you should slightly raise your home theater budget to six hundred bucks or less. Then you'll be able to connect each of your source components to your system using just a single HDMI cable! |
