As I mention in the review that's some rather misleading advertising. The extra two channels are the side-firing drivers on the 'bar.Going into the review though, I did think it had rears due to it claiming to be 5.1.2.
I didn't have any problems with the centre channel, and its sudden and significant price drop does make it very tempting at the price.Thanks for that Steve, I'm pleasantly surprised this one made the review list. I was following it for a while in the other, very quiet, thread but there's been some mention of the centre channel being weak so I've kinda discounted it - I can picture constant "what did she say?" queries from her ladyship. It doesn't appear that you've had a similar experience. The price is hard to ignore though, especially if you fancy a trip to the Amazon via Germany.
As I mention in the review that's some rather misleading advertising. The extra two channels are the side-firing drivers on the 'bar.
It primarily comes down to cost, but companies also conduct market research. I'll bet if you asked 100 consumers whether they'd rather have two HDMI inputs or an output with eARC, most would go for the former because they have no idea what eARC is. And the few that chose the latter would be AVForums members!Do you have any insight into how companies decide of what features to include? It will obviously come down to cost, but for example, is it cheaper to include 2 normal HDMI inputs than 1 eARC output (along with just 1 HDMI input)?
It primarily comes down to cost, but companies also conduct market research. I'll bet if you asked 100 consumers whether they'd rather have two HDMI inputs or an output with eARC, most would go for the former because they have no idea what eARC is. And the few that chose the latter would be AVForums members!