Coby DVD938 5.1-Channel DVD Home Theater System (Black)

by Coby

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18 x 15.2 x 14.5 inches ; 20 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 21 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B001PA94TC
• Item model number: DVD938
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,570 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #13 in Electronics > Home Audio & Theater > Home Theater Systems
  • #16 in Electronics > Outlet

Product Description

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Dynamic sound meets sleek design in Coby's DVD938 home theater system, which includes a progressive scan DVD player plus a 5.1-channel home theater speaker system (subwoofer and five satellite speakers). The DVD player has built in USB/SD card slots for direct playback of your digital media library, and it also features an integrated Dolby Digital decoder, microphone inputs for karaoke, and digital AM/FM radio.

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The five full-range satellite speakers and subwoofer deliver pounding bass and crisp highs for 600 watts of power in 5.1-channel surround sound.

Key Features

• 5.1-channel surround sound system with 600W total output
• Includes subwoofer with tuned port for deep bass response and five full-range satellite speakers
• Progressive scan DVD player with integrated amplifier
• DVD, DVD±R/RW, CD, CD-R/RW, CD+G and JPEG compatible
• Dolby digital decoder
• Plays digital media files directly from USB drives and SD memory cards
• Integrated digital AM/FM tuner with 40-station preset memory
• Dual microphone inputs for karaoke function
• Digital and analog AV outputs for home theater use
• NTSC/PAL compatible
• Convenient front panel and on-screen display
• Multiple language, subtitle, and camera angle support
• Parental lock control
• AC 100-240V automatic power switching

Specifications

• Audio input: RCA Stereo Audio
• Audio output: RCA Stereo Audio; Coaxial Digital Audio
• Video output: RCA Component Video; RCA Composite Video
• Menu languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
• Main unit dimensions: 16.8 x 2.2 x 10.2 inches
• Subwoofer dimensions: 4.3 x 11.8 x 11.7 inches
• Satellite speaker dimensions: 3.5 x 5.2 x 3.1 inches

What's in the Box

Main unit, subwoofer, 4 satellite speakers, 1 center channel speaker, remote control, AM loop antenna, FM wire antenna, AV cable, speaker cables, operating instructions

Product Description

Dynamic sound meets sleek design in Coby's DVD938 home theater system, which includes a progressive scan DVD player plus a 5.1-channel home theater speaker system (subwoofer and five satellite speakers). The DVD player has built in USB/SD card slots for direct playback of your digital media library, and it also features an integrated Dolby Digital decoder, microphone inputs for karaoke, and digital AM/FM radio. The five full-range satellite speakers and subwoofer deliver pounding bass and crisp highs for 600 watts of power in 5.1-channel surround sound.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

61 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect For What I Need, May 6, 2009

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A. Webb (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DVD938 5.1-Channel DVD Home Theater System (Black) (Electronics)

This system is wonderful for a starter set. If you're a college student, new to surround or looking for something simple for a smaller room, this is a great choice. The biggest plus about this system is that I can hook up my Xbox (RCA hook up or digital). Keep in mind that If you hook it up with RCA you can't get surround, but the stereo sounds amazing. I was afraid of Coby from all bad reviews on other systems. This one really exceeded every expectations. Very clear sound, great price and a great DVD player make this perfect.
I'm 21 and live in an apartment so the rooms aren't that big. I have a 100 sq. foot living room. This system is just right. When you finish setting it up (took me about 30 min, running cables and all) you need to put in a DVD like Lord of the Rings to test out the sound. If you leave everything at the default you'll notice that there's almost no bass and the center speaker is WAY over powering. Play around with your setting for a while, you CAN get bass out of it, just look through the menus.

28 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A value item, July 29, 2009

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DJ (Lincoln, NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coby DVD938 5.1-Channel DVD Home Theater System (Black) (Electronics)

I view the Coby DVD938 from a "Value" perspective. Based on the relatively low price I do not expect top of the line performance; however, I do anticipate solid quality from a set of basic features.

The Coby DVD938 delivers on this criteria. Nothing fancy, just basic features with decent sound quality.

I would not recommend this for your main home-theater setup. Instead I would recommend it for a secondary system.

My only "Beef" with this unit is the way in which the audio source defaults to DVD each time the unit is powered off and back on. Add to this a really long delay on the Coby when switching between audio source input (approx. 3-5 seconds) and three audio input sources (DVD, Radio, Line). My primary use is for audio from my Dish satellite receiver. This is the "Line" audio source on the Coby. So, each time I power the unit on I trudge through the process to switch to "Line" audio input... My work-around solution to simply mute the Coby when powering down, then un-mute when powering back on (saves lots of time, but wastes some electricity I suppose).

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the Best for DVDs, October 5, 2009

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James H. Rooney "jimrooney" (Issaquah, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DVD938 5.1-Channel DVD Home Theater System (Black) (Electronics)

On the surface, this product seems to be pretty good at first. Then once it is all hooked up, things change a bit. The first thing you have to do is make sure you get all the settings correct or you won't get Dolby Surround on the external input.

The second thing I found out and it still bugs me is that it won't hold the last "source" setting after you put it on standby. There are three source settings; DVD, Radio and Line. I use Line 90% of the time. But every time I shut the system down at night and then start it up again the next day, I have to change the source to line again. This is really just poor design.

The third problem is on some DVDs it will skip and not play them. I thought I had a bad DVD until I bought my Blu-ray player a few weeks later and the DVD played fine on that.

Overall, the sound is great but I wouldn't count on it for playing all DVDs well.