The Vision HTX is the first 5.1 system from Waitec that not only includes a well balanced DVD and DivX player with FM/AM radio, but also 5.1 speakers with all the necessary cables and enough sound power to make you enjoy a digital life. Of course, as was expected, there were some drawbacks, but considering the price range, we were generally happy with the whole package.

Middle to Pro users will probably not be satisfied with the limited range of input/output interfaces or sound output power of the Vision HTX and will look to other high powered solutions. Of course, high output power solutions may cost double to triple the money of the Vision HTX and may not support the nowadays must have DivX/Xvid formats. As usual, consumers have to consider the price and capabilities of a package and decide whether to buy or not. From our point of view, we were happy with the Waitec Vision HTX, but we also hope Waitec will release firmware updates to fix some problems we encountered during our test process.

- The Good

• Affordably priced (€99 + VAT)
• Supports almost all combinations of DivX/XVid encoded files
• Built in FM/AM Tuner
• Has no problem with DVD recordable/re-writable formats
• Supports firmware upgrades
• Supports Progressive Scan

- The Bad

• Low output sound power
• Doesn't support all character sets (e.g. Greek) for DivX subtitles
• Navigation menu could be better
• Not much information displayed during playback of files
• GMC 3 Warp Points is not supported properly
• Doesn't support NeroDigital (.MP4) format

- Like To Be Fixed

• Proper support for more character sets