RCA RTD160 DVD Home Theater System

by RCA

Product Details

• Item Weight: 69.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 29 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0002ARMR2
• Item model number: RTD160
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #296,873 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Perfect for smaller living rooms or your home's den, the RCA RTD160 Home Theater System combines a single-disc DVD player and integrated receiver with one powered subwoofer and five compact satellite speakers. It offers 200 watts of total power output (50 watt subwoofer, 30 watts per five satellite speakers) and decodes Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II, and Dolby DTS surround sound for maximum sound effects.

The DVD player plays DVD and Video CD discs as well as CD, CD-R/RW discs recorded on a CD recorder. It can also play back your own burned MP3-CDs recorded with a bit-rate between 32 kbps and 320 kbps. The tuner presets can be used to store AM and FM stations (40 in total). It provides the following connections:

• Composite Video Out: 1
• Composite Video In: 1
• S-Video Out: 1
• S-Video In: 1
• Component Video Out: 1
• Analog Audio Out: 1
• Analog Audio In: 1
• Digital Audio (Optical) Out: 1
• Digital Audio (Coaxial) In: 1
• Headphone: 1

DTS is the highest quality audio format used in movie films and DVD discs. It makes audio tracks more dynamic, more realistic and more closely matching to the original theatrical sound effect than any other digitally encoded soundtrack format.

What's in the Box
DVD Player/Receiver, remote control, batteries, instruction for use, AM/FM antenna, quick install card, six speakers (including subwoofer), speaker cable, subwoofer and connection cable, digital audio cable, video cable

Product Description

RCA RTD160 200-Watt DVD/CD Home Theater System

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 3 Strikes, Your Out!, May 6, 2005

By 

Emily J. Tucker (Sun Prairie, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA RTD160 DVD Home Theater System (Electronics)

I made the mistake of falling for a good sales pitch on this product a couple years ago. Of course this is a "newer model year" but it still has the same guts.

I was skeptical about buying RCA after my parents 5-disk player went out on them only 3 months after they purchased it. (STRIKE 1) RCA, which had a call center at that time, replaced it under warranty. ---That call center no longer exists, you have to take it to an authorized service center, so I have recently learned from the website.---

Shortly after I purchased this item, the replacement that RCA sent to my parents went out...in the same manner as the first one did. (STRIKE 2) This time, their "replacement" model made it exactly 1 year-3 months, so no longer was it covered under the warranty.

Well, what do you know, now this one has gone out on me...same symptoms as the failures on my parent's systems. (STRIKE 3)

This is what happens...you decide you want to watch a movie with the family. You are all excited, pop the disk in, and it says "Reading...Reading...Reading." After a few minutes, a message comes on the screen saying "This disk cannot be read. Check the region code..." The problem is the lazer that reads the disks itself. IT'S LIFE IS ONLY ABOUT 1-2 YEARS!!! Oh well, I now have a great surround-sound AM/FM stereo that cost me over $400 (paid $369 +tax for the system 2 years ago) when all was said and done. Did I mention it cost $30 just to get a quote for repairs?

So, if you can afford to buy a new system that often or pay the $275 repair bill then go ahead and buy away. Otherwise, RCA has been a HUGE expense & disappointment for our family.

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY!!!!, July 26, 2010

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S. CLARK (Seattle, Wa.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA RTD160 DVD Home Theater System (Electronics)

Just as the other reviewer has said, this system is terrible, only mine went out after only 3 months. After repeated calls to get it fixed and being told I needed to download a disk into the machine, the thing just died, wouldn't work at all. I was told it was out of warranty and it would cost more than it was worth to fix it. NEVER AGAIN will I purchase an RCA product. they suck.