Sony Intro HT-IS100 Bravia 5.1 HD Home Theatre Micro System [Ultra Compact, S-AIR Air Station Compatible]

Sony have announced their new HT-IS100 Bravia Theatre Micro System which serves to distinguish itself on account of its extremely compact speakers, each measuring ‘roughly the size of a gold ball’ (incidentally, the very same micro speakers included with Sony’s HT10), whilst offering all you’d expect from a Sony home theatre system such as 5.1 channel sound, three 1080p HDMI inputs, Digital Cinema Auto Calibration (DCAC) and, naturally, Bravia Sync.

Offering 5.1 channel sound with 450W RMS of power and a subwoofer with integrated 32-bit S-Master digital amplifier, Sony’s new HT-IS100 Bravia Home Theatre Micro System sports Sony’s Digital Cinema Auto Calibration (DCAC) – which serves to simplify setting up your surround sound system with the push of a button by automatically adjusting speaker frequency, distance and level – as well as a Dialogue Audio Enhancer with night mode and updated Portable Audio Enhancer feature which ‘improves the clarity and depth of digital audio devices connected to the system by adding information to the audio signal that had been removed during compression’.

As far as expandability is concerned, Sony’s HT-IS100 Bravia Theatre Micro System has a raft of options available including a Digital Media Port adding control, networking and connectivity options for music playback through various accessories, an iPod cradle, a Network Walkman cradle, a PC client capabilities and a Bluetooth adapter (each being sold separately).

Sony’s HT-IS100 Bravia Theatre Micro System is set to become available from July from Sony Style stores and will retail for around $700 though, unfortunately, at the time of writing, the only decent imagery to be released concerning the HT-IS100 is the above image which, whilst undoubtedly serving to lend scale to the HT-IS100’s micro speakers, offers little insight as to the actual units appearance. Perhaps we’ll get additional imagery later, featuring a watermelon, probably.

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