It also has a USB port that allows you to view images and perhaps play tunes.
Does anybody actually use those built in ports regularly without going mad? I've found them to be quirky and the actual viewer software built into the TV is normally broken in some way.
My amplifier is just a power amplifier (though multi-channel). My pre-amp is however a pre-amp and DAC/processor.
I umm... use the TV speakers... I never bothered with the whole surround thing because my living room where the TV is has an annoying shape and I never got around to cabling it up properly.
This post comes at a very appropriate time, since CES just started. I'm amazed at how much has already been announced that will also soon be forgotten. Some of what's been announced will be irrelevant by the end of the week. Most of it will be all but completely forgotten by the end of the year. There are very few exceptions and so far nothing has really jumped out at me.
Yeah. Most of the CES coverage this year has been pretty meh for me as well.