I bought a system over the last 2 months. 50" Plasma Panasonic Denon 3808 reciever Toshiba A2 HD-DVD player Playstation 3 for Blu-Ray Scientific America 8300 HD-DVR Polk Rti10 floors Polk CSi5 center Polk Fxi5 rears Velodyne 1200 sub All connected with 4 HDMI cables. If anyone has specific questions you can ask me. Also you can get HDMI cables for under $20 each that are better than $200 Monster cables from Monoprice.com
Yep,I pieced mine together last year.Sony tgr-dg500 amp. with Jenson surround sound speakers. It's not top of the line by any means, but sounds great.Spent only $200 and change for both.I always wait for the sales.