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[This Guy]

With this virtual surround that Bose uses in their 321 system is nothing special. Just about every HT receiever has this feature, I don't have enough knowledge of this to explain it to you, but there were a couple posts on this site regarding this feature and explaining how it works. Look at the systems that Bryan mentioned, they are much better than the Bose or Sony system, with the Bose you cannot upgrade, and you should always stay away from receiever/dvd player combo packages. If just the DVD player breaks you have to send the entire unit back and in the mean time you're left with no sound at all.

For hooking up you're dvd player, tv, and receiver together:

For video cables, hook up your dvd player to your TV with component video cables. Component video cables are the same thing as A/V cables but they charge more, so buy yourself some gold plated A/V cables (the ones with the red, white, and yellow plugs) they should cost you around $15. You could use an s-video cable instead, but it probably would cost more and the picture won't be as good. For your DVD players sound, connect a coaxial or an optical cable from the dvd players output and put it in the receievers input. Coaxial is cheaper, you can use just a regualar RCA cable for this (basically the same deal as the component cables) and the quality is the same as optical. No the sound does not degrade unless you have corroded/damaged cables. Don't spend too much on cables. This is what I use.

http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=15%2D1508

You would use those as component cables, and one of them as a coaxial cable. Don't spend much more than this on cables. Feel free to ask anymore Q's.

-Joey

[markw]

We all have our priorities and if the Bose 321suits your needs then feel free to enjoy yourself. You don't need out approval.

Our priorities are different and would not be well served by your choice. For that money, we have a multitude of other choices that would come much closer to our expectations than your choice.

I honestly suspect that it's relative size, simplicity of operation and universal power supply (I hope) rank higher on your list than it does on ours. Buy, hey, it's your money and your choice. Enjoy.

...but don't try to convince us that it's the best anyone can do for it's asking price. Puh-leeze.