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Jensen JHT350 DVD Home Theater System
Features:- DVD home theater system with 350 watts total amplifier power and a 5.1-channel speaker system
- Progressive-scan video output displays seamless, flicker-free images on high-definition and HD-ready screens
- Dolby Digital 5.1 surround processing for enveloping, full-bodied sound from DVDs and video game systems
- Compatible with DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, VCD, and MP3-encoded recordable CDs
- 2 auxiliary audio inputs; component-, composite-, and S-video outputs; headphone jack affords private listening
Customer Reviews
Rating:  - A Lot Of Bang For The Buck, With Some Qualifications
I bought the Jensen JHT350 Home Theater System for use in an 8' X 10' exercise room and use it mainly to watch music and concert DVDs while working out. The video quality is very good, although it is on occasion necessary to open and close the disk drawer two or three times before a DVD will load in the player. The audio can be easily heard over the noise of a treadmill and exercise bike, with plenty of volume left to burn. The audio quality is acceptable, but cannot compare with the near concert hall quality produced by more sophisticated home theater systems. There is a distinct tinny sound in the upper registers at high volumes.
The subwoofer is passive, which means it lacks its own amplifier and power supply and uses instead the amplifier in the receiver. The unit performs Dolby Digital 5.1 decoding, but has no DTS decoder. There are both digital coaxial and digital optical audio outputs, which make it possible to connect the DVD player to a better sound system, but there are no digital audio inputs. This makes it impossible to obtain digital sound from a cable or satellite receiver. There are, however, left and right analog stereo inputs and the prologic feature can used to obtain simulated surround sound from an external source, such as a TV or cable receiver, connected to these inputs.
The FM receiver pulls in a fair number of stations, but the AM receiver picks up only two stations, and I am located in a major metropolitan area which has numerous AM stations. The buttons on the remote are not very intuitive and are poorly arranged. Once the unit is turned off, it has no memory of any settings for a particular DVD, including the place in the DVD where playback was stopped. The operators' manual section dealing with some of the audio settings is incomprehensible and my emails to Audiovox and its agent requesting clarification have not yielded any useful information.
In summary, this item offers some features found in better home theater systems for a relatively low price, but it also has quite a few limitations.
Rating: - not to bad... if everything fits right
For a home theater in a box, and so cheep, it sounds good.
Not Denon good, but farly warm open sound, desent range -- the manual clames 20 Hz to 20 kHz, if true, that's inpresive for something so cheep. It has very little power however, and that will limit how large a room it will be able to work in, and of corse how loud it will play.
It looks very smart too.
The picture was also better than expeted, given the price. But the buld felt a bit cheep and the disc tray was missalined and would not open without help, and it would pause randamly (possably because of the missalined disc tray), so it was sent back for a Toshiba.
Other then THAT I would recamand it.
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