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By Ian Morris, CNET.co.uk
Jun 26, 2008

Increasingly, there are fewer reasons to go to the cinema. Let's face it: The people who go to movies now are brash, talk constantly to each other or are on their mobile phones, and generally make the whole experience an expensive waste of time. On the other hand, your house is quiet, has cheaper snacks and the youth are unlikely to be sitting in the corner snogging and making comedy remarks--unless they're your kids, in which case you can tell them to be quiet.

Sadly, in the quest for cinema quality, most people spend too much on their TVs and forget to save some cash for a good sound system. Samsung has created the HT-X715, a S$699 (US$467.78) HTIB which comes packaged with all the speakers you'll need to start enjoying movie surround sound.

Design

The X715 is designed to complement Samsung's "rose black" range of flat panels, as it's finished with the same subtle red tone. We're pleased to note that it looks good with any TV, including the LG Scarlet we used to test it.

In this nicely styled pack, you get all the speakers you'll need. The front speakers are designed to stand on a table or be wall-mounted. The rear speakers can be placed on a bookshelf or screwed to the back wall. The subwoofer is designed to be put in a corner and forgotten about, while the center speaker needs to be put beneath or above your TV.

Everything you require comes in the pack, including the speaker cable--which is pretty thin and weedy. There's even an HDMI cable included, which we were pleased to see.

One of the problems we noticed during testing was that this machine is a dust magnet. The main unit especially seems irresistible to every particle floating in the air. You're going to need to clean this thing regularly if you want people to be impressed by it when they come over for movie night.

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