If you're after fantastic audio quality at a reasonable price, Sony's HTDDW1000 is a great solution. The price for punchy bass and a wide range of connectors is some heavy boxes, but it's an easy trade-off.

A great, although expensive mid range speaker and receiver package that excels when it comes to watching movies.

While it is a little too costly, the FXG9K is a solid home theatre package, offering good quality audio and combining it with a five disc changer and a HDMI connection.

This SRT5390 provides excellent digital TV reception and adequate recording, timeshifting and playback functions. It lacks a USB port for transferring recorded programs to a PC.