I didn't see any mention of it, but Don't forget the Cables.

You'll need to see what is going to work best for you and buy your amp with the appropriate cable hookups for your TV and DVD player. Most amps use the TV as a Monitor and manage all the devices hooked up to them.

For example: I have a TV with Composite inputs, that mates with my Amp's Composite Outputs. Utilizing the Composite out on the DVD player, to the amp, made a huge difference in image quality.

Now for the DVD player Audio, I initially had a Digital Coax and gave that one to my Mom and bought one with Optical out to the AMP. This allowed me to hook up my Cable Digital Coax out to the Amp. (I only had one Digital Coax connection on the AMP, but have two Opticals.)

The cable box had no High resolution Video so it just uses the Analog video to the AMP. VCR is the same way, no high quality stuff there and just have it hooked up to the basic stuff.

To hook up this stuff requires some forethought on what cables you'll be using and if your AMP is compatible with them. They can be really pricey so shop around. Strangely enough Lowes and Home Depot have a good selection of them at a decent price.

BTW - I'm waiting for a JBL Powered Sub that I ordered from AMAZON, it should compliment my system nicely as my AMP has the LFE Sub connection and with the THX decoder, it should sound awesome. I've read though at higher volumes the Sub is turned off, but there's thousands of opinions. Experimentation will tell.

My AMP came with a Microphone that it uses to auto tune itself to the speakers. This makes setup much easier and adding the little tweeks to personalize it is easier. You might want to consider that in your purchase.

You can always spend more on the Amp to begin with and buy better speakers later.

Good luck! Let us know how it turns out.

My favorite Surround movies that I own and just like to throw in now and then are SWAT, Triple X, Bond Die another day, etc. The Helos in Swat flying around with the Gun battles are awesome in surround!