Back in the old days when you wanted a good home theater system you needed to build it component by component. now days, there's quite a few good home-theater-in-a-box (HTIB) solutions available. Robert over at at HomeTheater.About.com has a listing of the top 10 Home Theater-In-A-Box choices. He starts with:

10) LGDVT418 Home Theater-In-A-BoxLG isn't a name you normally associate with audio, but their LGDVT418 home theater-in-a-box system is worth checking out. This moderately priced system features a 5.1 channel surround sound receiver (90WPC) with Dolby Digital/DTS/Pro Logic II decoding, a 150 watt subwoofer, and a progressive scan DVD player with DVD/DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW/DVD-Audio/CD/WMA/CD-MP3 playback capability. Also included are very stylish thin tower speakers that blend in well with today's flat panel television setups.

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