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Samsung HT-X40 5.1-Channel DVD Home Theater System
Studio : Samsung
by Samsung
Brand : Samsung
Model : HT-X40
Publisher : Samsung
Batteries : 2
Availability : This Item is currently Not Available
Color : Black
EAN : 0036725616592
UPC : 036725616592
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 24 reviews)
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5.1-channel home theater system with 800 Watts of total power
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1080i HDMI-CEC output
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Progressive scan video
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USB host play lets you plug-and-play your portable digital devices
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Wireless rear channel ready
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Product Description |
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Single Disc Home Theatre surround sound system w/ 800 watts total output power. USB Host play w/ MP3, JPEG, WMA, DIvX, and photo file support. HDMI Output with up-conversion and CEC. Auxiliary front panel input. Progressive Scan, Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic, and DTS decoding. Wireless rear channel ready. Multi Media Disc playback. |
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HT X50 Okay for price and features |
I purchased my system in Jan 2008. The system is nice but had certain limitations that many of the other reviewers cited.
Pros: Good sound quality, soft or loud and great dynamic range, feature rich, relatively easy to connect (if you don't have too many other components to deal with).
Cons: Limited input source support as others noted. My main gripe is only one HDMI output for TV, limits how you can connect other sources such as a cable box with HDMI or optical if your TV only has one HDMI input)
Wireless system interfered with my wireless router (mostly caused by speaker transmitter being within 2 ft of my wireless router, but it did interfere)
Had the same problem as others with the sound getting out of sync with the video.
I like the system overall, but if you have more than the DVD player or video source to hook up, the system is not capable without purchasing external components to provide input switching capability. If you need to buy an external video switch and wireless rear speaker sub-system, you might consider stepping up what you are willing to pay for your surround sound system with a more integrated solution. |
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Great curb appeal, poor performance! |
Hi there,
I have had this system since fall 2007 and though it may work okay if you just want to watch TV it performs poorly for movies. I bought a SWA-3000 Wireless Receiver Module so that I wouldn't need cords to wrap my living room for the rear speakers. Though this sound system is wireless ready, it has a hard time maintaining the receiver's speakers! So when we would watch a movie the rear speakers wouldn't work half the time! Also to really feel the movie, you have to just turn up the volume, but then it is over saturated and you loose all depth in the sound quality. On another note, the DVD player portion would dub poorly with the sound to screen . . . the sound would not match the mouths of the actors. And to top it off, when watching movies the screen will go blank even though the sound of the movie will continue! If Circuit City were still in business I would trade this in! |
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Good deal for the price, but a a few issues... |
I bought this system at Circuit City back on Black Friday 2007. It was a major upgrade from the 75 watt system I was using previously. The bass is very loud... so loud that my upstairs neighbor had to ask me to turn it down once while I was watching a movie because their walls were vibrating.
I do have a couple issues with this system though. One, sometimes the screen goes black while watching a DVD. If you try to just rewind, sometimes it'll lock up and you have to turn the unit off and start all over again and fast-forward to the part where you left off.
Another is, I'm hearing impaired and the DVD player does not read closed-captioning. Luckily most DVDs these days have English subtitles, but some older ones do not, they just have normal closed-captioning like on TV.
If your cable box or TV has an optical audio output, you can connect to the home theatre unit to get surround sound while you watch regular TV. I don't know if it was just my bad luck, but the audio was out of sync when I tried this. The sound coming from the speakers was behind by maybe a half second and it reminded me of those overdubbed kung-fu movies.
My final issue is something that happened the other weekend. I hadn't turned the unit on in maybe a couple weeks, but I wanted to watch a DVD. I turned the unit on, got the "Hello" screen, then it suddenly said "Protection" and turned itself off. I looked this up on Samsung's website and apparently the unit was thinking it was overheating. I unplugged it overnight to see if it would reset itself, but no luck. So I opened the case to see if there was a manual reset button and again no luck. I ended up buying a new system a week later (a different brand that's actually a little better... got it for the same price I paid for the Samsung). Just for the heck of it, I turned the Samsung on one more time and wouldn't you know it.... it works again. But I'm keeping the new system I just bought and will either keep the Samsung as a backup or put it in my computer room as I have a new HDTV in there now. |
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Undependable junk! |
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This unit does have good sound, but that's where it ends. The controls are very user unfriendly and no other remotes will operate it. It went completely dead in two months. Samsung has the worst, most unfriendly customer service I have ever seen. I had to pay $30.00 to ship it to them and when I got it back the dvd player kept getting worse and finally died. While it was in the shop I used a $28 Apex player out of my rv and the picture actually looked better. Now, when you try to play a dvd it just says "disc unknown" and shuts off. My warranty expired two weeks ago. Never again will I buy Samsung. |
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Junk |
To start with, the quality of video and sound is good for the price. I'm not an A/V guru, so it looks and sounds good enough for me...when it functions.
Not much more than a month after receiving the system, the video would turn black during DVDs, but the sound would continue. I would have to turn the unit off, then back on for the picture to come back. This would happen as frequently as every 5 to 10 minutes.
I called Samsung, and they had me "reset" the unit and call again with any problems. Well after being told to reset the unit three different times, I was told to try a different HDMI cable, and not use it at 1080i, to use 720p. Well this seemed shady to me, because I should be able to use it at any resolution I want.
FINALLY after a few calls, I was told I could send it in for repair, and they asked if I would be willing to pay for the shipping to the facility! Mind you this is still under warranty, and I of course said no I owuold not pay for the shipping. After 2 or 3 weeks, I received the unit back, although it was only supposed to be 7 to 10 days.
Two months later the DVD player is doing the same thing, screen going blank during DVDs. I called Samsung, asking to speak to someone about a replacement unit as opposed to it being repaired again. I was sent to Executive Customer Relations, only to be argued with by the call taker and told there was no way I could get a replacement unit, how case management wouldn't approve it, and that she would not transfer me to a supervisor. Finally she told me she would put in a request for case mgt to call me within 3 business days.
4 Days went by, and I called Exec. Customer Relations again, only to be told I would be called soon. A total of 7 days have gone by with no call.
IMO, Samsung has great TVs, but this home theater system is garbage and their customer service isn't much better.
UPDATE: 25Aug08 - A month and a half has gone by and no call from executive customer relations. I sent in my unit for repair, got it back 5 days later, and on the second DVD I tried to watch, the screen went blank again. This will be my third time to return this unit for repair. Terrible. |
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