Dubai, UAE- 17 June 2007 -Philips SoundBar DVD Home Theater provides cinematic experiences that will captivate, move and engage you.
The award-winning HTS8100 features Ambisound - a Philips proprietary technology that enables the SoundBar to impressively deliver an embracing multi-channel surround sound from one unit. The SoundBar includes top performance technology to bring you the highest standards in audio and video quality.
The elegant one-piece integrated system fits effortlessly into any home. Designed for flexibility in placement and ease of set-up, the SoundBar matches any flat TV and provides a clutter-free solution that requires absolutely no décor compromise. With its immersive surround sound and high quality audio & video the Philips SoundBar truly raises the bar in home cinema.
Ambisound offers a clutter-free solution for an outstanding cinematic experience while allowing you to keep your home the way you like it. Unparalleled in style, the SoundBar is an advanced home theater system that delivers truly immersive surround sound using Philips' very own Ambisound technology.
The SoundBar has 5 amplifiers - similar to a conventional 5.1 audio system. Ambisound uses a combination of array processing, precise driver positioning and psycho-acoustic phenomena, providing a fully embracing multi-channel surround sound without multiple speakers and wires.
Unlike other surround sound systems that use only virtualizers or array processing, Ambisound is capable of providing an immersive surround sound in any type of space - even in odd-shaped rooms and open-concept homes. The SoundBar is designed to perform wherever you prefer, so there is no need to reorganize your life to get that perfect home theater experience.
Another unique trait of Ambisound is its ability to provide a wider sweet spot, so that surround sound is experienced without the constraints of listening positions. Not only does the SoundBar allow you to sit where you fancy, you can also share the unbeatable surround experience with family or friends.
Bringing audio and video to life
Despite its sleek looks, the SoundBar is packed full of features that, alongside Ambisound, add to that perfect home theater experience.
Pureness and clarity in frequency response is achieved with a 3-band equalizer, soft dome tweeters, DoubleBASS, high efficiency full range speakers and high excursion woofers. Working in combination, these features produce a brilliant audio output that is crystal clear.
Advanced sound processing further enhances the HTS8100 sound experience. QDARC increases the SPL (loudness) level and TI PurePath digital amplifier manipulates the sound field for an even richer cinematic experience.
Personalized and flexible equalization settings with eight music settings and eight movie settings ensure you always get the best listening experience, whatever your taste and whatever is playing.
Great sound should go hand-in-hand with great picture, and the SoundBar does not disappoint in this respect. Faroudja DCDi provides incredibly sharp high quality video, whilst 1080p HDMI digital AV connection delivers perfect picture and sound.
Philips SoundBar DVD Home Theater system delivers full multi-channel surround sound in any sort of room. "The sleek one-piece system fits into the home effortlessly, providing a full cinematic experience with exceptional sound and picture quality, said Khalid Tuer, Philips Electronics General Manager Middle East & Africa.
DVD player and speakers fuse to form the SoundBar - an elegant unit that finds its way into the hearts and homes of the style-conscious and the practical-minded. It leaves the home uncluttered, uncompromised by the invasion of modern electronics and their unavoidable entourage of multiple wires.
Simplicity is also carried through to the SoundBar's setup. It has an impressively clean cable management system and is designed to be easy to install, with just three cables to connect.
The HTS8100 matches with any flat TV, forming a harmonized look and feel.
Surround your senses with Ambilight and Ambisound
Staged with Ambilight - a Philips display technology, Ambisound delivers an extraordinary home theater experience. Combined, the two expand the cinematic experience to draw you into your favorite movies, allowing you to escape, relax, and indulge your senses.
An Ambilight TV provides picture-perfect image quality as well as wider and more captivating viewing - filling the field of view as a commercial movie theater does. Ambisound then takes the experience to yet another level, delivering high quality sound that immerses the listener, transporting each movie scene right into your living room.
Ambilight and Ambisound technologies - designed to transform your movies into an immersive cinematic experience with images that reach out and sound that embraces you.
-Ends-
About Royal Philips Electronics
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is a global leader in healthcare, lifestyle and technology, delivering products, services and solutions through the brand promise of "sense and simplicity". Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs approximately 124,300 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 27 billion in 2006, the company is a market leader in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring systems, energy efficient lighting solutions, personal care and home appliances, as well as consumer electronics. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.
For further information please contact:
Galia Rizk- PR Manager
Philips Electronics Middle East & Africa
Tel: +971 4 3095155/Mob: +971 50 625 82 03
Email: galia.rizk@philips.com
© Press Release 2007
