RCA RTD255 5-Disc DVD Home Theater System

RCA RTD255 5-Disc DVD Home Theater System

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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.

Amazon.com Product Description

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 offers 1 each component-, composite-, and S-video outputs and 2 stereo analog (left/right RCA) audio inputs.

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Customer Reviews:

Horrible System.......2006-07-09

I bought this unit as a present for my husband, the first one we had only a month, it continually froze up during frames until it finally froze up and we couldn't get the door to open and give back the DVD. We returned it and the new one has the same problems. The discs regardless of the brand skip, freeze up, the audio and video will become unlined. I believe one of the prior reviews is correct in saying that the unit overheats. Most of the time when we turn the unit it on it makes a horrible loud noise, we will have to turn it off and on until it starts up fine. The sound, once it gets going, has great quality but I would not recommend purchasing this item.

Not a very good DVD player - SLOW, freezes up!.......2005-11-16

The DVD player started freezing up on me after only a few months of use. Sometimes if I unplugged & plugged it in again, it would temporarily fix the freezing problem...for a few days...maybe. A few weeks after the freezing started, the DVD player wouldn't properly play DVD's. I tried several different discs, even brand new ones...same issue. The audio and video wouldn't be lined up, now it is only showing half of the picture and the rest of the screen is yellow. My TV is fine, it's this RCA DVD player. The player itself seems to get very hot, so maybe it's an overheating issue that causes all the problems? Overall, it is LOUD (lots of clunking noises when changing discs), SLOW (painfully slow, like 30+ seconds to load a disc), and just plain unreliable. I've had better luck with my 3 year old Apex DVD player (which never freezes up BTW).

The speaker system has been pretty decent (so far)....the only reason I gave this system a 2-star rating.

For close to $200 I expected something a lot more reliable that wouldn't poop out on me after 2 months.

My next DVD player will NOT be an RCA!

More surprising lack of RCA quality.......2004-09-28

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.

do not buy this.......2004-08-30

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.

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