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Setting up surround sound? Like most of you, we don't have a few thousand we can hand over to a custom installer, much less a million dollars we can hand over to Goldmund, so the Swiss makers of av equipment can custom engineer a reinforced concrete decadently decorated media room! (If somebody wants to buy us one... we're OK with that!)

What we do have, and you can have, too, if you watch this show, is a knowledge of the basic techniques involved in setting up and optimizing your audio gear!

e'll start with knocking down a couple of the basic surround sounds questions... like one from Andrew: "which is better, DTS or Dolby... AAC or Linear PCM?" He got a tad overwhelmed while helping his brother in law set up a new receiver.

Bob saw a Vizio HD Sound Bar at the local store, loves how easy it looks to install comapred to a typical 5.1 system, and asks "Can the soundbars really give you surround sound?" We explain on the show!

Marshall Garlington the re-recording mixer: on Twilight, Rambo, Saved!, Phone Booth, Van Wilder and Blade joins HD Nation to talk about creating surround sound for feature movies!

Marshall also has his Top 5 Picks for showing off your Surround Sound Gear! Hint: Kung Fu Panda and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World are on the list! Watch the video to find out the other three!

The Blu-ray releases for the week of October 6th, 2009 include: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Audition, Bones: Season Four, The Children, Contact, Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!(1970), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1965), Ghost Ship, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Kurt Cobain: About A Son, Miracle on 34th Street (both the 1947 and the 1994 versions), My Life in Ruins, The Number 23, Offspring, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, Seventh Moon, The Thaw, Trick r Treat, Year One, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the 1971 version with Gene Wilder). Finally, Disney has released Snow White in a number of different collector versions...

Angles, distance and experimentation: Robert and Patrick walk you through setting up and optimizing your 5.1 surround sound speaker placement, from center channel to subwoofer, surrounds and left and right front, all with the help of a gorgeous set of Home Theater Direct Level THREE speakers and subwoofer.

A modern surround sound receiver has about a billion different options, so Robert and Roger walk you through the key settings with the help of a rockin' Denon AVR-990 7.1 channel Home Theater Receiver. They talk Dolboy Digital, True HD DTS, DTS HD Master Audio, LPCM, HDMI and SPDIF switching, processing and more!

Before you drop hundreds on speaker wire for your surround sound setup, we suggest you take a trip to the local Big Box Building Supply place... watch the video to find out the amazing deal we found!