Samsung Launches Home Theatre System - HT-D5550

Samsung has a wide array of products from home appliances to luxury goods, and now adding to that is a new home theatre system called the HT-D5550.

The HT-D5550 looks sweet, but will it be apt for your living room?

The D-5550 is a 5.1 system and has some really nifty features like AllShare and Samsung’s Smart Hub. The system is Wi-Fi enabled and boasts of other features like 3D Sound Plus and Crystal Amplifier Plus. The latter is meant to filter sound distortion and noise whereas 3D Sound Plus is a built-in DPS effect generator that is meant to give you a surround 3D effect when you’re watching movies. Samsung also claims that the system can convert non-HD content to Full 1080p along with 2D to 3D via the video processor.

Smart Hub lets you share online content, mostly comprising of videos and other media, as well and Samsung has also thrown in their own app marketplace called Samsung Apps. The system also has two HDMI inputs and the HDMI ARC (Audio Return Channel) that allows users to connect compatible devices to process the TV’s audio signal without an optical cable.This 5.1 channel, 1000-watt home theater system has four stylish tallboy speakers and a wireless rear speaker, and has a built-in Karaoke feature, as well.

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