Panasonic released a bundle of home theater systems at CES 2009, but the
SC-ZT1 is easily the best of the bunch. The SC-ZT1 is a wireless home theater
system that uses the 2.4GHz band to send uncompressed audio to all four
speakers. Like all wireless systems, you’ll need need to run a power cable for
each speaker–so it’s not completely wireless–but you won’t have to deal with
long speaker cable runs all over your living room.

The SC-ZT1 is somewhat unusual as its technically a 4.0 system–there are
just the four, spindlelike speakers (Panasonic calls them Sound Slim Speakers),
pictured in the image. These four speakers each have four vertically aligned
speakers within them, which the SC-ZT1 uses to create a virtual 7.1 surround
sound effect. Sure, it probably won’t sound as good as a real 7.1 system, but
you’ll be dealing with a lot fewer wires. You’ll also notice that the SC-ZT1
lacks a dedicated, separate subwoofer.