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Sony HT-SF470 - Home theater system - 5.1 channel

Sony HT-SF470 - Home theater system - 5.1 channel
Brand: Sony
Category: Home Theater

List Price: $549.99
Buy New: $408.87
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Seller: The Shutterbug
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 67

Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Warranty: 1 year warranty

MPN: HT-SF470
Model: SF470
UPC: 027242792869
EAN: 0027242792869
ASIN: B003JCB1AO

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Features:
  • 3D Ready home theater system
  • Wireless S-AIRTM Rear Speakers
  • 1000 watt 5.1 channel surround sound
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Complete your entertainment experience with 5.1 channels of high-quality surround sound and support for wireless rear speakers4 with the Sony® HT-SF470 3D Matching Blu-ray DiscTM Surround Sound System.2 Features 3D compatibility so you can enjoy incredible 3D sports, games and movies like never before.2 Connect multiple HD or 3D devices using a single HDMITM cable per device (sold separately) and turn this sound bar system into your entertainment "hub".1 Elegant floor standing speakers and beautifully sleek monolithic design make it a great compliment to the Sony® BRAVIA® 3D HDTVs

Customer Reviews:
4 out of 5 stars Very good value. . .a few flaws   August 18, 2010
Bob Balinsky
Great sound.

Great 5.1 functionality.

Great value.

I have mine teamed with a 46" Samsung C6300 LED LCD and a Sony Playstation 3. I love the fact that I'm down to one HDMI input feeding my new TV for all input sources. . .they all go through the Sony HT-SF470.

Complaints: When I bought the product, I assumed that the rear speakers would work wirelessly without an additional purpose. Note, that to use the S-AIR functionality with this product, one needs to buy a transmitter to plug into the HT-SF470 receiver and a receiver for your powered speakers that get served. I also agree with the previous reviewer about how the system lacks a graphical menu. Finally, and perhaps most needlessly frustrating, I hate that Sony doesn't leave you enough wire for their rear speakers. There's nothing worse that to give up on an optimal setup because you don't have enough wire. Also, Sony uses speaker wire with proprietary connectors(more costly and hard to find upgrades).

Still a good value for the price. . .beware that they attempt to suck you in to future purchases by giving you a nearly complete system.




4 out of 5 stars Amazing Quality, Minor Annoyances   August 17, 2010
Kai Brinker (Brooklyn)
Overall I am very happy with my purchase of this system. The sound is amazing and the system is relatively easy to use once you've set it up. My review may sound negative overall, but I'm just pointing out some items you should be aware of. Overall I recommend this system.

Physical Assembly: Sony is known for quality electronics, not necessarily easy assembly. For this system, wiring the speakers through the poles and base can be a little confusing and the instructions for this are pretty horrible. Not a huge deal, however - just get through it.

Electronic Assembly: Wiring up and calibrating the unit is pretty foolproof - Speaker cables are color-coded and the auto calibration is very simple - The manual's warning makes it sound like the calibration will cause your neighbor's china to fall off the shelf but this is not the case and it's only 30 seconds of non-continuous sound.

Syncing Devices: I currently have a "slim" (Bravia Sync-enabled) PS3 and a Sony W-Series (KDL-40W4100) attached to the receiver. The Bravia sync works pretty well but some functions are strange. The receiver's remote has lots of BD/DVD controls but you have to press a "TV" button at the same time to use them with a PS3 (it looks like the signal passes from the TV to the PS3 via the receiver), and some don't work at all. Non-syncable devices I have attached are a Roku Player (via HDMI) and an Apple Airport Express router (via TOSlink). I have not tried out any S-Air accessories but plan to in the near future.

General functionality: I don't know what cave Sony is living in, but some things are simply stupid. To start, all the device names are hardcoded (SAT/Cable, BD, DVD, SACD/CD, etc). Come on now, we're in the age of random accessories - we should be able to name the ports ourselves. For example, to play my computer's iTunes via Airport and TOSlink I need to select one of the two sources that have TOSlink, so I end up selecting "SACD/CD". Yet if I were to purchase an SACD player I'm in trouble again since newest ones use HDMI, which this receiver won't take under the "SACD/CD" port name, so I'd have to use "DVD" or "BD"... very confusing indeed. The menu structure is pretty archaic - I don't understand why they couldn't add a visual media bar setup via HDMI and your TV.

The AM/FM tuner works great quality-wise with the included dollar-store antennas. Functionality-wise the tuner is a bit cumbersome to set up. There's no auto-program so you will be spending some time saving stations. If you have hours to kill you can manually name the stations arcade-style (up, up, right, up, up, up, up, right). I don't know Sony doesn't have RDS functionality in there to take care of the naming - it has been around for at least 15 years.

Once you get over assembly and display labeling, however, this is a pretty solid player. One cool feature this system is the "Night Mode" which allows you to watch explosive movies at night without your upstairs neighbor hanging a noise violation on you.

And finally, this system looks awesome.


4 out of 5 stars Great but buggy Bravia Sync   August 14, 2010
Bryan Kelly (Hartford, WI United States)
This does sound great. I do not want to take that away from it, but I feel that the Bravia Sync feature is a little buggy. Here is my problem. One of the great features of this system is that it will do HDMI pass-thru when the unit is off. That is great because you don't have to have it on all the time to hear what you are watching. When the unit turns on, it turns off the TV speakers (TV says "switching to external audio"). That is great. Now, when you turn the unit off, the TV once again says it is switching to the external audio. That doesn't make any sense. It should turn the TV speakers back on. A few days with Sony customer support, they say this is working by design and is not a bug. Well, the design is wrong. I am using a Sony Bravia KDL-40V5100 TV by the way.

To be fair, the rest of the Bravia Sync functions work great. I can change the volume with the TV remote. When I turn off the TV, the home theater turns off as well. Switching the input on the TV will switch the input on the home theater system.

I'm wondering if anyone has had this issue with the switching on and off of the TV speaker. It could just be a bug in the TV.


5 out of 5 stars worth the price   August 8, 2010
Inside man
This is my first ever home theater system it was easy to hook up and the sound is incredible

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