Customer Reviews

RCA RTB1100 1000W Home Theater System with Blu-Ray Player

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I purchased this item on December 15th. I've been looking for a home theater system for about 2 months, and have searched Amazon up and down for a system for less than 300.00. This system fit everything I needed with my budget.I wanted a blu ray player, dependable brand, and clear sound. Sorry SONY, but I steered away from all SONY systems due to my experience with my last one that this unit has replaced. It is my third system and definitely the best so far. (under 300.00)

HOOK UP: 15x20 living room open floor plan (no individual rooms: kitchen living room etc, one big area not clearly defined). 50" PLASMA against the wall and surround sound speakers placed behind on the floor due to not buying mounts (which you should buy!).

Pros: sound is solid, center speaker does a good job. Surround sound is a notch above my other systems (RCA and SONY). I knew coming in that the bass wasn't going to knock down the frames; however it does the job especially with movies and day to day on-demand HD movies. BluRay: I haven't had any issues what-so-ever so far. It's a step up from my aging PS3.

Cons: I'd have to say the BASS, obviously. You can only get so much out of a sub that is probably more of a MID. I'm planning to fix this with a self powered sub, but that will come later. I'd have to say that I really wanted a wireless system...but nothing was out there for the price. If you can get past the wires or at least be able to neatly tuck them away, you'll be fine.

Overall: Solid, does the job you'd expect it to do, and if your're into movies, you'll be satisfied. Just make sure to tweak the system to your liking and you'll be happy that you got a dependable brand in RCA with some decent wattage, and a blu ray player all under 300.00. I paid 294.00 all together so I got off pretty good.

Surprises: The unit is so light, no more than 10 lbs by feel, I was taken back at first even a little dissapointed, but hey...that's how technology has moved along.

This system had a delay in the sound coming from the tv. You would see the lips move on the tv and a fraction of a second later you would hear the sound from the speakers. After doing a little reasearch I have come top find out it is a common problem with RCA products.

Terrible, terrible terrible! Please don't give RCA your money. This thing freezes multiple times during playback(and it's not the disc, we have put brand new discs in with the same results). When I called their help line, they acted like they knew it was a problem, but required a receipt for me to send it in for repair/exchange. Since I bought it online, I don't have that and now I'm stuck with some nice speakers, but a worthless player.

Plus, the speakers have the bare wire plug-ins (push down on the spring loaded button and insert the wire to connect) and it doesn't seem that many systems even use that anymore.

Stay away! Far, far away!

I purchased this at a seemingly very low price. Nothing but problems. Maybe it will be alright in the garage as an expensive radio. I would not want another one for free.

This system had an easy set up it only took me about 10 minutes, maybe less. The length of the speaker wires were just right for my studio and put out good sound. One draw back was the cords, each had one black side and then a different color running through the whole wire. It wouldn't have been so bad if only the first inch of so of the wires were such but now it made the wires pretty obvious if there wasn't a way to place them discreetly.

Overall a great product, but had one serious down fall for me and that was the blu-ray player. It took a while to load and then it would occasionally drop the sound for a quick second. Not noticible at first but happened more frequently. Then finally no sound at all. The blu-ray would freeze trying to load a DVD and then it was blinking pink and the home screen which lead to a solid pink screen. The AUX source worked fine and put out great sound still, so it was solely the blu-ray player that was problematic.

So, if all you need is great sound from your AUX source this is a great buy. But since I know we want the whole system I wouldn't recommend this product.

The return for me was super simple. Repack the system in the box it came in, print the UPS label from Return Center, place the return paper in box, and drop off at a UPS location. Got to the Returns Center in a week and reimbursement notice in the same day.

My family bought the RCA Blu-ray RTB1100 during the after-Thanksgiving sales. We got it all hooked up only to have the Blu-ray player freeze up multiple times. We exchanged it for another one. Again the blu-ray player froze up in the middle of the movie. We tried different blu-rays and DVDs and the same thing happened. We're very frustrated and will be replacing it with another brand.