Well it’s lacking of iPod docking support but that really can go. It has HDMI out with 1080 up-scaling conversion which is perfect for LCD TV. It also had radio, USB port and two mic ports. I tried playing AC3 encoded *.avi files in a USB thumb drive but surround option is disabled, I don’t know why. It would have been really cool for it to decode Dolby Digital audio embeded in the file, or I maybe missing something. I was originally aiming for a 5.1 speaker set at around 14K and then we found this item in a brochure at 14,990.00 plus 1,500.00 discount if you pay cash/straight payment. So its a good deal!

If in case I cannot extract surround sound audio off from a USB video file with AC3/DTS encoded in it, there’s the AUX Optical Audio-In at the back, which I am not familiar with. Something new is always fun, either way, I can go back to collecting high quality DVD movies again.