RCAs RTD255 complete home theater system plays all your movies music and even your digital photo CDs. It comes with a 5-disc progressive-scan DVD/CD player integrated with a high-power surround-sound receiver and a multichannel speaker system--everything you need to play amplify and enjoy your digital entertainment. (A television is not included.)The systems central unit merges a DVD/CD player and audio/video surround receiver. The disc player spins DVDs and CDs from standard audio discs to recordable CDs filled with MP3 music files or JPEG digital photos. The receiver powers the supplied 5.1-channel speaker system (front and rear left/right center speaker and passive subwoofer) with 55 watts per channel x 4 (front and rear left/right) and a powerful 90 watts each for the critical center-channel speaker and the included 6.5-inch passive subwoofer.The systems discrete Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel audio decoding lets you enjoy spacious full-bodied surround effects from commercial DVDs and DTS surround-sound music CDs. Your Dolby Pro Logic-encoded VHS tapes will sound great in 4-channel surround (left center right and monaural left/right surround) and the system even features Dolby Pro Logic II special processing that generates 5.1 mixes in realtime from any stereo (2-channel source).Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or youre merely thinking of someday the RTD255 is equipped to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.The RTD255 also performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; reverse 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion removing the redundant information t...
RCA's RTD255 complete home theater system plays all your movies, music, and even your digital photo CDs. It comes with a 5-disc, progressive-scan DVD/CD player integrated with a high-power surround-sound receiver and a multichannel speaker system--everything you need to play, amplify, and enjoy your digital entertainment. (A television is not included.)
The system's central unit merges a DVD/CD player and audio/video surround receiver. The disc player spins DVDs and CDs, from standard audio discs to recordable CDs filled with MP3 music files or JPEG digital photos. The receiver powers the supplied 5.1-channel speaker system (front and rear left/right, center speaker, and passive subwoofer) with 55 watts per channel x 4 (front and rear left/right) and a powerful 90 watts each for the critical center-channel speaker and the included 6.5-inch passive subwoofer.
The system's discrete Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel audio decoding lets you enjoy spacious, full-bodied surround effects from commercial DVDs and DTS surround-sound music CDs. Your Dolby Pro Logic-encoded VHS tapes will sound great in 4-channel surround (left, center, right, and monaural left/right surround), and the system even features Dolby Pro Logic II, special processing that generates 5.1 mixes in realtime from any stereo (2-channel source).
Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the RTD255 is equipped to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.
The RTD255 also performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; reverse 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture.
The system offers 1 each component-, composite-, and S-video outputs and 2 stereo analog (left/right RCA) audio inputs.
A drift-free, digital FM/AM tuner offers 40 station presets with auto station scanning so your favorite stations are never more than a button-push away, and a headphone jack lets you listen in private. For night listening without headphones, the system offers 2 compression modes to minimize dramatic increases in sound level between quiet and loud movie passages.
What's in the Box
DVD player/integrated surround amplifier, 4 satellite speakers, a center speaker, a passive subwoofer, a remote control (RCR311AC1), remote batteries, a composite-video cable, AM/FM antennas, MusicMatch MP3-creation software (CD-ROM), a user's manual, all requisite speaker cabling.
1 More surprising lack of RCA quality
I had RTD250 system that ate the DVD's within a month. After sending for repair, RCA said they would send me a new model and a couple of weeks later the RTD255 arrived.
The systems were very similar, but the drive changer does make a lot of clunky noises. This new unit did lock up, but unplugging it from the wall, and plugging it in again worked.
I never had an compatibility issues with the unit, all the DVD's seem to work fine.
The surprising thing I found is that my RCA VCR when controlled by *any* controller, will switch the theater system back to DVD mode. So RCA have obviously used the same IR code, so it frequently does this!
The sound and picture quality is fine. I output to a RCA 52" HDTV through component and the quality is fine.
The controller isn't programmable.
The unit does work, but seems a lot cheaper than the RTD250 (not that I got a rebate on it!)
If you get it cheap, go for it. If your considering other, read their review.
Have a great day.
2 do not buy this
Everytime I buy RCA, I get burned. Last month it was the wireless headphones that stopped working afetr 2 days, this time it's this horrible piece of garbage. It won't read half of my DVDs. I put in Alf Season One, and it reads it, displays the title on the menu screen, and then says "disc incompatible." Also when switching discs it makes a loud clunking noise and makes you think it's eating your DVDs. RCA needs to go out of business.
