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| Image Quality | 6.3/10   |
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| Sound Quality | 6.1/10 |
| Ease of Set Up | 6.4/10 |
| Ease of Use | 5.7/10 |
| Value for Money | 3.9/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 4.8/10 |
| Overall Rating | 5.4/10 |
Full review by
pushover0
on 5th Jul 2008
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Good Points: It looks good
Bad Points: Its unreliable. does not play disks first time. it goes on protect after a short time. The left speaker works when it wants too.
General comments: Reading all the poor reviews on the Sony DAV-S800 I can only agree this machine is over priced and hugely disappointing. Its totally unreliable and is too expensive too repair...too expensive to get rid of but now im tempted.. It obviously has design faults and Sony should have recalled the product. Like everyone else i would never buy a Sony product again.
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Review by
Disgruntled Sony Owner
on 1st Apr 2008
User Rating : 2
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At around £900 when I bought the Sony DAV-S800, I expected more of a Sony product. Over the years I have had several TVs and music centres for various rooms and have not been as disappointed with them as I have with this. That said, on the music centre I purchased about 10 years ago, 1 of the speakers failed after about 5 years which perhaps surprisingly led me to buy this unit which is now effectively a piece of contemporary furniture and little else.
Disgruntled Sony Owner's full review | 105 words
Review by
Guest.
on 22nd Mar 2008
User Rating : 4
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Had the Sony DAV-S800 for over 5 years. LHF speaker connection went during first year, repaired under warranty. Then CDs refused to play! Repaired, but seriously came close to getting rid of it as it was not cheap to repair! Now, the RH rear speaker occasionally cuts out, although a "hiss" can still be heard. I just bang the unit and it comes back on! Not prepared to get this repaired and I'm just gonna run it into the ground. Never buy sony home cinema again.
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Review by
Guest.
on 15th Dec 2007
User Rating : 3
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Buying this product would lead me to believe that you do not always get what you pay for and that perhaps by paying less for a different brand you will not lose out on quality. Seems like Sony may be trading on it's name and not it's product. Definitely not recommended.
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Review by
pacfreeman
on 25th Sep 2007
User Rating : 8
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Overall I have been completely happy with my Sony S800 system. Just about to remove the speaker stands and wall mount as part of room decoration.
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Review by
Lucky Dick
on 1st Mar 2007
User Rating : 1
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I bought this very shortly after it first came out and paid a price to get a system that did it all. The test of time proved that I was a mug! This is not a great system and could be beaten by much cheaper systems. That said, this would be a great second hand bargain for anyone on a budget as they are as good as valueless. Engineered so you can't fix it yourself. This was my last new Sony product.
Lucky Dick's full review | 198 words | 2 comments added.
Review by
snathalal
on 17th Apr 2006
User Rating : 0
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Sony could have done some more improvements with the DAV-S800. There are huge mechanical and software related problems with this unit.
I will not recommend any one to buy this, or any other Sony products for that matter.
snathalal's full review | 61 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
powder monkey
on 18th Feb 2006
User Rating : 6
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Having saved for a new TV for 2 years, I finally collected it this week. I connected up my Sony DAV-S800 last night, and have for the first time in four years experienced the same problem as others. The machine is rarely used, as we have been waiting for a TV for this room. I notices that someone has just had theirs repaired for £60.00. Where did you get it fixed? There is no way I can scrap this system (£800.00) for something that has spent nearly two years in a box. It is outrageou ...
powder monkey's full review | 125 words
Review by
uamyint
on 28th Nov 2005
User Rating : 6
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After 3 years home entertainment with the Sony DAV-S800 DVD Home Cinema System the power button started to fail. My local Sony Service center cannot fix it within the one year's period. Fortunately within a week's time one of repair shops can mend the problem.
For such expensive equipment it should last longer than this!
uamyint's full review | 70 words
Review by
OkanB
on 19th Jul 2005
User Rating : 7
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I got the C-81 error on my Sony DAV-S800 HE dvd home cinema system after playing a CD yesterday. I could not retrive the CD and it is still in the box! Can anyone advise me what to do? Repeated turn on/offs of the gadget gave no results and I was on the verge of breaking the damn thing! Is this Sony quality? I hope not! It's more than 3 years old now, and warranty does no longer cover it.
OkanB's full review | 86 words | 2 comments added.
Review by
Kalanisi
on 5th Jun 2005
User Rating : 7
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Please, please, please, can someone help me. The ddvd/cd door of my
Sony DAV-S800 goes on a "no go" after a while and c-81 error is shown on led. If I turn the system off, unplug and then turn it all back on it goes back to normal. However it happened over an hour and now the unplugging of system is not resolving the issue. Please can someone out there help me.
I too, am very much interested in complaining to Sony. This is ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kalanisi's full review | 91 words
Review by
SonySUX
on 7th Jan 2005
User Rating : 0
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This product is a joke from Sony, They obviously know very well that it's a FIASCO and MUST offer all of us a FREE upgrade to a model that WORKS!
PLEASE WRITE HERE AND GATHER VOTES TO FORCE SONY TO RECOGNISE THIS MODEL DESIGN FAILURES.
Thanks
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Review by
alpolini
on 4th Jan 2005
User Rating : 6
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Very good sound decoding quality. Wathing a DVD with DTS or THX is very impressive.
Unfortunately the DAV-S800 system is not loud enough (volume is limited for over heating).
Front left speaker does not work time to time.
No sound input is possible due to a fault with my system.
I regret not extending the warranty when purchasing the system 3 years ago.
alpolini's full review | 101 words
Review by
stewbag
on 9th Nov 2004
User Rating : 8
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Bought the Sony DAV-S800 system a couple of years ago and initially had no problems. I had an S Video connection to my TV. The Video 1 setting to my VCR and the Video 2 (Digital Cable) connected to my XBOX to enable Dolby 5.1 surround on my games. This I highly reccomend - the quality of sound on some of the games is fantastic and obviously the DVD sound is superb as well.
After a while my problems started.. initially the unit stopped picking up sound from my XBOX, or would start picking u ...
stewbag's full review | 309 words
Review by
CanaryBoy
on 25th Jul 2004
User Rating : 9
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I've now owned the DAVS800 for 2 and a half years. My first DVD player, I purchased it also, to replace my bulky but excellent sounding 1985 Technics separates hi-fi set up in my living room.
First off, CD quality is nothing special. I was warned of this by the salesman but, as I don't have the volume too loud, this has not proved to be too much of a problem. Also, when playing CDs, I like to take the sub down a bit so as to avoid booming bass line in the music!
When playing DVDs, the unit com ...
CanaryBoy's full review | 258 words
Review by
khaledabolnaga
on 9th Dec 2003
User Rating : 0
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Well
after almost a year the Sony DAV-S800 dvd player started triggering its PROTECT feature (over heating protection mechanism) so it shuts itself off if the sound volume is over half ! ONLY using a loud DVD film in! say satwars at a climax scene
it SUCKS
Now the left speaker goes on protect on its own after few seconds of playing from cold! status
may be its a bad soldering joint inside because if I play with the connector at back it works momentarily
but it is definitely a heat related p ...
khaledabolnaga's full review | 141 words | 34 comments added.
Review by
zukkster
on 24th Nov 2003
User Rating : 1
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I bought my Sony DAV-S800 home cinema system only 18 months ago. Just after I'd had it a year I had a few problems where I put a disc in and no sound came out, but this went away if you took the disc out and cleaned it. Then last month the sound wemt completely. My local store said they'd seen this problem before and were confident they could fix it. They can't, it's dead.
zukkster's full review | 74 words
Review by
ROLAND.
on 26th Feb 2003
User Rating : 0
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I was lured into buying this system when I heard it being demonstrated in the store. Then I realized that it could have been because of the demo DVD. I bought one, then after three months I noticed that I had a hard time playing audio cds (it paused/freezed). I need a small fan so it will not heat up.
ROLAND.'s full review | 81 words
Review by
AvoidSony.
on 25th Jan 2003
User Rating : 10
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Got a DAV-C900 and it broke 2 months later. Had to send it in for repair (I had to pay the $25 shipping cost, that's wrong). A year later, it's dead again. While I loved it when it worked, it didn't work very well. Disc transport mechanism is slow, noisy and unreliable. This is the fourth Sony product I've had bad luck with. I didn't buy this one, but I feel bad that my Dad wasted so much money on a Christmas present for me that he thought was a quality product coming from a reputable comp ...
AvoidSony.'s full review | 108 words
Review by
Steve B.
on 13th Jan 2003
User Rating : 10
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It has dealt with every type of CD & DVD that I have fed to it (mine is the multiregion version). An excellent system all round.
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