Games & gear forum: Surround Sound for Ps3

I agree with the above advice regarding cables. The only thing I would disagree with is the price of cables at Best Buy and the other box retailers- it probably depends on where you live, but here their selection of cables is slim and what they carry is all very, very expensive. I couldn't find an HDMI cable at my local Best Buy for less than $40. Ordered some good high quality HDMI cables online for $3 a piece, so my suggestion would be to shop online for cables.

As far as recommending a surround sound system, I recently purchased the Panasonic SC-PT760. There is a good review of it here on CNET and I wrote a review of it here too. It's under $400 and it works well with my Xbox 360 (don't own a PS3). My only complaints about it would be it could use some more audio inputs and it only has one digital audio input. Because of the one digital audio input, I run the audio (and video) from my 360 to the TV with an HDMI cable and then a digital audio cable from my TV to the surround sound system (as opposed to running a digital audio cable directly from the 360 to the surround sound system).

Onkyo has some excellent refurb deals from time to time if you check their Club Onkyo site. I recently picked up an admittedly old HTIAB system, but the receiver it came with had 2 optical inputs and 1 digital coax input, along with about 4 component and composite video inputs. I forget the model offhand, but it was about $120 shipped, and included a free refurb DVD player. It may have been a refurb, but it looks absolutely brand new. It was an unpowered sub, but it was $120, how wrong can you go for an entry level HTIAB system at that price?

You can also get 10 free Club Onkyo points for signing up, and that translates into $10 off your purchase. Just be ready to pounce when they have some good deal, because stock will tend to go fast once word goes out on sites like slickdeals.