Remember yesterday when we reviewed the Sony BDV-E300 blu-ray and surround sound home cinema system? Well, if you do, you may not be surprised by the first couple of paragraphs on its brother system, the E800W.
As you’ll recognise from yesterday, the both systems have 1000w of amplification with Sony's S-Master digital amplifier. They also both come with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA with Sony's Digital Cinema Sound, the latest Blu-ray Disc features, and all the mod-cons you’d expect of such a system.
More excitingly the E800W uses a technology from Sony that uses nearly double the range of colours so the picture will well and truly pop.
What’s more, if you haven’t got round to buying any blu-ray DVDs quite yet, the system will upscale your existing, bog-standard DVDs to near-FullHD standard. So the ‘what comes first the DVD or the player’ mystery is well and truly resolved.
Where the BDV-E800W stands apart from the E300 is with its four floorstanding main speakers for front and rear, left and right channels. It packs in the same high-power subwoofer as the E300, and there’s some wireless rear speakers thrown is as standard as standard so hiding wires is no longer an issue.
As promised yesterday, Sony brings another two exciting features to the E300 and E800W.
Digital Cinema Auto Calibration means that tyour system will set itself up for optimal performance in your room. It can even take into account your listening position too.
Sony’s Digital Media Port allows the connection of iPod, Walkman players, mobile phones and Bluetooth stereo devices so you can hook them up to your TV (and, more importantly, your godly surround sound system) for a different music experience altogether.
Tomorrow we will be taking a look at a whole new Sony home cinema system, the BDV-Z7, a simpler yet still effective system for the casual home cinema viewer. Why not subscribe to our RSS feed now so you don’t miss it?
6 thoughts on “More bite than bark: Sony BDV-E800W home cinema system”
thnx it helped me to choose
daisy
Is Sony BDV-E800 available in the UK? If so where & any idea on pricing? anyone???
I purchased this unit (E800) recently and WOW it is brilliant. The sound is fantastic and the blu-ray graphics are superb, would highly recommend anyone looking for a home theatre system to look no further and buy it.
The only downside is that it will not play avi/divx/mpg files from a usb or dvd, aside from that this is a great unit well worth having.
Ray
Where did you buy this system & how much you paid?
Thx for your reply in advance.
Cheers,
Jas
is it possible to connect the rear speakers wired as well? Incase wireless generates noise due to other wireless equipment in the neighbourhood.
Can you connect a laptop and play a Blu-ray movie from there? Do you have problems playing BD-RE (rewritable blu-ray discs)? I heard that Sony do not play written discs. Is it true?