Product Features:

• Complete home theater system with a 5-disc DVD/receiver combo, 5 satellite speakers, a passive subwoofer, and 100 watts per channel
• Compatible with DVD-Video, MP3 CD, JPEG image CD, and high-resolution Super Audio CD (SACD)
• Dolby Digital, DTS, and Dolby Pro Logic II surround processing for immersive audio from movies and music
• FM/AM tuner with 30 station presets (20 FM, 10 AM)
• DVD/receiver: 15 x 3 x 14 inches; satellites: 5 x 9 x 5 inches; subwoofer: 8 x 15 x 14 inches (W x H x D)

Product Description:

Looking for a home theater system with more style than bulky black boxes can offer? Do complicated setups make your head hurt? Sony's DAV-FC7 Dream system may be the reality for your home-theater fantasies. The compact set features a slot-loading five-disc DVD-Video changer with built-in surround-receiver abilities and color-coded speaker terminals, five satellite speakers, and a separate subwoofer designed to work in concert to deliver spectacular video quality and exhilarating, full-bodied surround sound from both DVD and Super Audio CD (SACD) music sources. Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DAV-FC7 stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. Choose from progressive-scan component-video outputs, composite-video, or S-video outputs. (Older TVs may require an RF modulator or video switcher to convert composite- or S-video to a threaded RF coaxial jack.) Whether watching a DVD or discovering the sonic benefits of SACD, you'll enjoy the DAV-FC7's outstanding, 100-watts-per-channel audio performance (across left, center, right, left/right surround, and subwoofer outputs) from Sony's S-Master full-digital amplifier. Depending on the discs, SACD music releases provide super high-fidelity multichannel and/or stereo sound, using a high-resolution 1-bit converter to exceed the quality potential found in the standard 16-bit compact disc. For added convenience, the system also offers MP3 file playback and JPEG image CD slideshows so you can get the most from your favorite digital media right in the comfort of your living room. After just minutes of setup time, you can enjoy the DAV-FC7 from the repose of your easy chair with the supplied easy-to-operate Remote Commander remote control. Auxiliary connections include secondary composite- and S-video sources for a camcorder, gaming console, or VCR and a headphone jack. What's in the Box DVD player/integrated surround amplifier, five satellite speakers, five short speaker stands, a passive subwoofer, a remote control (RM-SP900), remote batteries, a user's manual, and all requisite cabling.
From the Manufacturer Sony’s digital technology brings riveting special effects and exquisite imagery into your home with the DAV-FC7 DVD Dream System. Flawlessly reproducing sound and film, this system features a 5-disc, slot-loading DVD/SACD/CD changer with progressive scan output, Dolby Digital, DTS, and Dolby Pro Logic II decoding, CD-R/RW, super audio CD (multi), and MP3 playback, JPEG playback with slide show, and an S-Master full digital amplifier. Encounter the ultimate in entertainment excitement with... read more
From J&R Music and Computer World Sony DAV-FC7 is truly a dream system that complements any TV and HDTV to give you that immersive Home-Theater surround sound. Creating great home-theater is really easy with this system. Simply add a TV and you've got it. Don't get a large screen TV without considering this system as an add-on. 5-Disc DVD/SACD/CD Changer with Progressive Scan Output 600 Watts Total System Power (100W x 5 channels,100W x 1 to subwoofer) CD-R/RW, Super Audio CD (Multi), CDR MP3 Playback CD JPEG Playback with Slide Show Dolby Digital, dts, and Dolby Pro Logic II Decoding 6 Speaker System: 5 Satellite Speakers + 1 Subwoofer Digital Radio Tuner with 20 FM + 10 AM Station memory presets Progressive Scan Output (480P) Inputs und Outputs: Component video and S-Video Outputs, Digital Input, 2 Analog A/V inputs, 1 Analog A/V Output Headphone jack 2 Video Signal Inputs 4 Video Signal Outputs Includes Remote Commander(R) Remote Control RM-SP900 and Lengths of Supplied Speaker Cable: 16.4' x 3 (Front Speakers, Center Speaker); 49.2' x 2 (Rear Surround Speakers)



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Description from Manufacturer: Looking for a home theater system with more style than bulky black boxes can offer? Do complicated setups make your head hurt? Sony's DAV-FC7 Dream system may be the reality for your home-theater fantasies. The compact set features a slot-loading five-disc DVD-Video changer with built-in surround-receiver abilities and color-coded speaker terminals, five satellite speakers, and a separate subwoofer designed to work in concert to deliver spectacular video quality and exhilarating, full-bodied surround sound from both DVD and Super Audio CD (SACD) music sources.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DAV-FC7 stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. Choose from progressive-scan component-video outputs, composite-video, or S-video outputs. (Older TVs may require an RF modulator or video switcher to convert composite- or S-video to a threaded RF coaxial jack.)

Whether watching a DVD or discovering the sonic benefits of SACD, you'll enjoy the DAV-FC7's outstanding, 100-watts-per-channel audio performance (across left, center, right, left/right surround, and subwoofer outputs) from Sony's S-Master full-digital amplifier. Depending on the discs, SACD music releases provide super high-fidelity multichannel and/or stereo sound, using a high-resolution 1-bit converter to exceed the quality potential found in the standard 16-bit compact disc. For added convenience, the system also offers MP3 file playback and JPEG image CD slideshows so you can get the most from your favorite digital media right in the comfort of your living room.

After just minutes of setup time, you can enjoy the DAV-FC7 from the repose of your easy chair with the supplied easy-to-operate Remote Commander remote control. Auxiliary connections include secondary composite- and S-video sources for a camcorder, gaming console, or VCR and a headphone jack.

What's in the Box
DVD player/integrated surround amplifier, five satellite speakers, five short speaker stands, a passive subwoofer, a remote control (RM-SP900), remote batteries, a user's manual, and all requisite cabling.Average Customer Rating:

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Comment: Great Sound and Picture - Terrible usability Rating:
I bought this system for it's size and it's all-in-one nature. It fits in nicely in my living room and is small enough to fit on my tv stand. The set up was easy except for the rear speaker wire not being long enough. Everything works the way it should right out of the box. CD Sound quality is nice and loud and the DVD looks and sounds great. The good qualities end there. Let's start with the slot loading changer. It takes about 45 to change a cd or dvd, which is ridiculous in my opinion. If you are watching your cable or satellite through the system and you want to put in a dvd or cd to listen to, it changes the function to the dvd player! That wouldn't be so bad if you planned on watching the dvd right then but when you want to load 5 cd's to listen to it is horrible. Even worse is that when you push eject to get out your rented dvd to take back to the store, it changes the function then too! Changing between cd's in shuffle mode atkes about 30 seconds between each song. You cannot split the audio and video so don't expect to play video games and listen to cd's or watch tv with the radio on. The diplay on this unit is so small that you can hardly read it from 5 feet away. Also, I had a cheap dvd player and even it showed the movie title on the display. This player gives you no information about any of the discs inside. So even finding out what discs are in the machine takes another 5 to 6 minutes.
This would be a good single disc system, but as a changer, it sucks. I'm returning it to get a tray style system.

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Comment: defective design Rating:
It should be obvious to anyone that is reading these posts that this unit design is defective. Around a month into ownership, my unit became unresponsive, no stopping, pausing, ff or ejecting DVD's. The remedy was to unplug for a few minutes, reset and try again. Finally returned for a different product.

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Comment: It is really zero stars Rating:
I wrote a review below, where the unit freezes up and I have to unplug it overnight to make it work. Just an update: Sony has had my unit for a month, can't fix it, and can't send me a new one back because "We don't have any DVD players" according to Eric." And by the way, we can't tell you when you'll get one. I have literally had a broken unit since January, and no estimate when I'll get one. I pay Netflix $20/month for... nothing.

Why would you want one of these in your home, when Sony doesn't even have any?

Just look at all the reviews below, this is a piece of junk, and the service is beyond horrible. As one Sony customer support person explained to me: "Mr. Vaughn, life is full of inconveniences"

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