Thats exactly what I don't understand. We have a plasma TV, no digital cable, and a craptastic DVD Player. He'd been better off taking 800 and buying a big wega or something and wiping his butt with the other 2G's, atleast it would have been put to good use. That DVD Player is Nice. I think I will jsut get him that and let him get his own speaker set up. Then when he buys another crappy speaker setup, maybe I will have enough money to buy a decent system. The system is for MY lake house, the TV is his. But They use the system alot more than me, being up at college.