Quote Originally Posted by hershon
MY definition of Home Theater in a Box means you get all the speakers, DVD/receiver manufactured from the same company. I don't see how buying speakers manufactured by one company OrbAudio and a DVD/Receiver manufactured by another company JVC equals home theater in a box. OrbAudio sells it not at a profit just to save customers time on a compliment to their system. My problem with HTIB is that the receiver may be good and the speakers not so good or vice versa. The crap propogated on this board about why you shouldn't have DVD receivers is just that. I've never heard of the DVD portion going caput. The problem with many people on this board and I'll say it again and again is alot of people on it have no common sense- they don't applaud or criticize a product because of the way it sounds but are more into technical gobbly gook.
Oh? Orb sells the JVC DVD/receiver and the speakers as a package with instructions on how to use the two units together. Again, all-in-one speaker package plus an integrated DVD/receiver -- how's that any different from other home theater in a box offerings? Just because they don't have the same brand name doesn't change what segment of the market they serve, or what the product is.

Integrated DVD/receivers are about convenience. You may have never heard of a DVD portion blanking out, but friends of mine who've worked in AV sales see defective products come back to their stores all the time, many of which are integrated components that have lost one function. An integrated component greatly your chances of having to send the entire unit back with a defect, and as such they do not recommended integrated combo components (particularly ones that combine a solid state component with something that has motors and moving parts that wear out) precisely because if one part breaks, you have to send back the whole thing. You mean you've never heard of a defective DVD player, or one that needs a firmware update, or receivers with unreliable power supply sections?

These drawbacks to integrated components are very much common sense based. If a transistor shorts out on an integrated receiver, then you lose your disc player as well when you send it back If the drawer can no longer open on the DVD part of an integrated receiver, then you can't listen to music while the thing's in the shop. If either of these problems occur with separate components, then you retain functionality of part of your system while that component is out of commission, and you retain the option to upgrade one component rather than having to upgrade both. To me THAT'S common sense.

I don't know what planet you've been reading this board from, but people who frequent the forum are very much concerned about sound quality. They discuss the technical details because they know how it potentially impacts on the sound quality.

If anything, you're falling prey to a common fallacy among a lot of the newbies that have come and gone through this forum over the years. They buy a system that they like and automatically presume that it is the best approach for everybody. You bought yourself an Orb system with an integrated receiver. You like the sound quality, so therefore people who made other decisions or have other opinions lack common sense and are only concerned with technical jibberish rather than sound quality. Pretty presumptuous there. It's fine to enjoy your system, but let's not get carried away with all these other tangents and assumptions about other people.

BTW, the original poster already has a DVD player, so why are you recommending that he go with an integrated receiver? Because two DVD players are better than one? Or because you already own one?