Panasonic SC-ZT1 Wireless Home Speaker System
Panasonic is looking to take the wireless home theater system experience one step further with the upcoming SC-ZT1 wireless surround sound system. The system uses 2.4GHz RF transmission to send uncompressed audio to four speakers, doing away completely with speaker wires. You will still need a power cable for each speaker, but without long speaker wires everywhere it will make for a much cleaner looking system.
The system uses just four speaker units, each consisting of four small speakers vertically aligned, with a 5 inch down-firing woofer at the base. Panasonic uses a virtual technology to give the illusion of 7.1 surround sound with only four speakers. There will probably be a noticeable difference between this and a real 7.1 system, but it will look a lot better in the home theater.
For those of us looking for a fully wireless home theater system, you can add a Panasonic VIERA Z1 TV and a DMP-BD80, BD70V or BD60 Blu-Ray player which have wireless video transmission, giving you fully wireless audio and video.
The SC-ZT1 is slated for release spring 2009 in the US, but there hasn’t been any further updates since the press release in January. For Australian consumers, it looks like it will be released in August 2009 as a 2 speaker system according to Gadget Guy.
This system is unlikely to be gentle on the hip pocket, but if you are looking for something that will look amazing without compromising too much on sound quality, then this should be on your wish list.
Press release at Panasonic USA
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